I know what you’re all thinking: “Wow, I wish I had a themed playlist for Halloween that I could just play on repeat all week.” Well, friends, look no further. A comprehensive list of tracks spooky, scary, and more, listed below just for you. 1. Halloweenhead- Ryan Adams 2. Monster- Lady Gaga 3. Thriller- Michael [...]

Carmilla is one of my favorite books that I have been required to read for a class at BU. It is a novel about a young woman, Laura, who lives in Austria with her father in an old castle and is visited by the vampire Carmilla, once in her youth and then again ten years [...]

One of the best parts about being a film and television major is quite a small perk. I get so excited about them that I stalk my email until I receive the FTV Weekly Newsletter each Monday morning. From there I just click on a link, type in a couple of characters, and wait to [...]

As a native New Yorker, I absolutly hate tourist. They get in the way of everything and do not know how to navigate the city, which causes so many delays! Why can’t they go visit another city?! But whenever one of my parents’ friends from South America come to visit, all those feelings of hate [...]

Hey Everyone! We here at Uncommon Discussion are now using Instagram to document our time here at BU- check out some of our pics below! And be sure to follow us at @mugarlib – we’ll be sure to post some interesting shots for Halloween!

Tough Teachers = Good Teachers? Lovely blue book examinations in college – don’t we love them? Our hands cringe after we finish the test and our hearts burst when we receive our grades. Such hard work is never compensated with a satisfactory grade in our hearts. I have thought of this theory for so long. [...]

In September, Kevin Flynn began a blog called The Bunion. It was a satirical paper in the style of the hilarious newspaper The Onion that critiques and pokes fun at college life, BU, and its administration. His blog has grown to have over 5,000 hits, and uploads one article per day. The many short articles [...]

In the spirit of anticipation for tonight’s final presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, we’ve compiled the four best Internet phenomena that showcase the finest political gaffes, puns, parallels and parodies of this election season. 1. Lucille and Mitt- http://lucilleandmitt.tumblr.com/ Pairing hilarious Mitt Romney quotes over screenshots of Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development- [...]

I spend my free time doing work for the Obama campaign, which means every weekend I’m on the road to New Hampshire to talk to voters and Get Out the Vote. This weekend, this went awry. I was driving a rented minivan with a few other college students to Goffstown, New Hampshire. I was following [...]

This is the second installment of out Rape Culture Podcast. This podcast focuses on the creation of the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center that is now open on campus. I spoke with Ariana Katz, a recent graduate from Boston University and one of the students who were involved in the creation of SARP. She [...]