The Only Way Out is Through
Exam week, late assignments, new friendships and unknown frat illness push down on us every other week it feels like in college. As the roof…
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Less is More: Slowing Down Your Day-to-Day Life
Life doesn’t have to move at sixty miles per hour. The endless responsibilities and deadlines can feel suffocating and often lead to burnout, stress and…
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The Ex Effect
“Shout out to my ex, you’re really quite the mess!” Don’t worry, you may have heard those famous lines from a popular song produced back…
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Am I the Villain?
For a lot of people, college can be a transformative time where you can find your true self and lifelong friends, so why does it…
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Is Your Frontal Lobe Developing?
Every Penn State girl has been there, you watch your roommates start to get ready, pre-game music starts blasting and suddenly you’re the center of…
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The Firstborn Fray
Have you ever dealt with the suffocating sense of duty that comes with being the firstborn in your family? Maybe you’ve been delegated the task…
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Amber is the Color of Your Energy
Brainstorm, take yourself away from the norm. After giving “Amber” by 311 a listen, the song can have the ability to transport your mind to…
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Easy Eats: Simple Meals for Students
Being a student can feel like a full-time job, between classes, extracurriculars and events there is hardly time for anything else — especially for cooking….
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The Change Theory
Alexa, play The Longest Wave by Red Hot Chili Peppers. On a day to day basis, we ride the wave of life full of many…
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The Lost Art of Asking for a Favor
A simple favor is all VALLEY asks for. If we need a ride to the airport, food from the store or a chaser from Mclanahan’s,…
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The absence of you!
Our lives are a constant revolving door consistently having ups and downs. The blips of joy we feel in every breath taken and every move…
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Hyper Fixation Poisons the Mind
We’ve all done it. On a random Wednesday night, one can become absorbed into a random TV show, leading us down the social media rabbit…
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Every month I watch the same message from the same group chat light up my phone screen. The message comes from my hometown friends and…
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Embracing Newfound Independence
College comes with so many lessons, the biggest one being who each of us really is as a person. While balancing new friends in a…
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Home is often associated with a sense of belonging and comfort. During the holidays, the emphasis on togetherness and shared experiences reinforces this sense of belonging, contributing to a nostalgic feeling of being in a place where you are loved and accepted.
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Is It Self-Care to Post Your Break Up Everywhere?
We all enter our revenge era when a break up ends messy or we are disappointed one too many times by the same average guy. …
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CAUGHT IN BETWEEN: THE SITUATIONSHIP-RELATIONSHIP DIVIDE
“What are we?”: The dreaded question no one wants to ask or answer. Nothing is worse than not knowing what you and your partner are…
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Meet VALLEY’s Fall 2023 Self-Improvement Section Opener: Jaiden Hope
Everybody has a word that they live by, whether it’s consciously or not. For Jaiden Hope, a second-year broadcast journalism and communications sciences student from…
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Everything on a Bagel?
You’re living your mundane little day, heading over to the grocery store and stopping your cart by the bread aisle. You pick up a pack…
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We are all #TeamToxic When it Comes to Love
A little toxicity adds spice and drama into our lives. The taste may be sour after, but we are all attracted to it one way…
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