While pumpkin-spiced lattes seem to satisfy our inner pumpkin cravings temporarily, this pumpkin crunch cake is sure to put all your cravings to shame. Start off the autumn season with this easy-to-make cake that’s sure to please family and friends.
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September is in full swing and that can only mean one thing to Penn State students: exams are coming. It’s been a wonderful few weeks of relaxing and doing a few reading assignments here and there, but let’s face it: sylly week is long gone and exams are upon us. There are many emotions we feel when we realize that we’ll be taking exams soon, but most of them can be broken down into Kubler-Ross’s Five stages of Loss and Grief.
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Is it the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? As some students enter into their final year at the beloved Penn State, they find themselves in certain situations that they did not expect. One of the most interesting changes that goes on at the start of senior year is the making or breaking of relationships.
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Now that the semester has settled in, it’s time to start searching for jobs. It’s the last thing you want to think about, but it’s stuck in the forefront of your mind, and nothing rushes that reality faster than Fall Career Days.
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The semester is now in full swing, and the assignments are starting to roll in. It can be easy to get overwhelmed when professors are talking a mile a minute about all the things you need to get done this semester. If you find yourself ready to yank your hair out in class, take a deep breath; Valley’s got your back.
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There are many perks to being in the early stages of a new relationship. First off, you’re both in the “honeymoon stage,” that period of time when the infatuation with one another is at an all-time high. You haven’t been together long enough to discover the other person’s irritating habits or undesirable personality traits, so things are easy.
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We all love our boyfriends for a bunch of different reasons but we all want them to break free from the gym clothes wardrobe and bed head stages. However, we don’t want them to see us as crazy controlling girlfriends (even though we totally are) so here are some techniques to steer your boyfriend in the right direction with him feeling like you’re telling him what to do.
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Why does everyone insist that September sucks? We blame it on Green Day. “Summer has come and past, the innocent can never last, wake me up when September ends…”
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Yes, we wish this were a real class at Penn State, but sadly it’s not. Lucky for you, A Dash of Healthy is here to teach you the basics, as a part of our Kitchen101 series: a step-by-step guide to cooking your basic college eats.
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As I walked into my bare, grungy apartment for the first time, my heart literally stopped. I was overwhelmed by the smells of frat-land, the obscenely large stains on the carpet and the peculiar mold growing in the bathroom. The list did not end there.
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College is a stressful time for everybody, but for some students, it’s so stressful they sadly never make it home. Suicide on college campuses is a taboo topic that’s rarely spoken about. It seems like there are only one or two resources to help students.
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Heading back to State is a whirlwind of reunions, move-in-boxes and multiple trips to the dreaded bookstore. However, there is a demon far creepier and way more invasive than an inevitable textbook return line, and that demon has a name: repairman.
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Ever seen the movie, 500 days of summer? Well, having a summer fling is a relationship that is similar to this movie with some cheesy one liners, pointless emotional fights and a whole lot of summer lovin’. Instead of Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the main lovers, replace them with you and your partner.
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Serendipity: the phenomenon of finding value in something without intending to search for it. If I had to rest my finger on a single reason that I am a part of Valley today, I suppose I’d have to point to serendipity.
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Who would’ve guessed it, miss Lana Del Rey was right, summertime sadness is an actually thing. No, I’m not talking about the beginning of summer when parties are in full swing and activities are plentiful. But what happens when things dry up?
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A college student doesn’t just cease to be poor once summer starts and there’s only one way to stop those annoying PNC bank account emails from alerting us to our negative balances — get a summer job.
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There’s nothing in this world we resent more, but can completely relate to on an extremely shallow, yet intimate level. Yep, we’re talking about first world problems.
In light of finals and the inevitable chore of packing up everything you somehow managed to haul all the way here in the first place, you’re probably going to be hearing your fair share of first world problems being voiced this week and will most likely let a few slip yourself, and Valley wants to be there to say we told you so.
I absolutely love to dance. It’s not good dancing, but whenever I hear one of my favorite songs playing I am the first one to bust a move. You’ll see me trying to doing any type of dance move from “screwing the light bulb,” to “moving the lawn,” to Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” or Beyoncé’s ‘Single Ladies.”
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You don’t care. Well, maybe a little bit but it’s hard to care about some things with less than a month left. But there are ways to properly not care without hurting someone’s feelings or hurting your chances to keep up with schoolwork.
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Everyone does it. Well, a lot of people do it. Cursing is something we are taught from a very young age not to do, but so many of us do it in our older age anyway. For some of us, it just feels good. It feels good to release our emotions in the form of these words. For others, it’s just second nature.
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