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  • Beauty & Health
    • Beauty, Decolonized
      Beauty, Decolonized
    • How to Have a ‘Sick Day’ When You Can’t Stay Home
      How to Have a ‘Sick Day’ When You Can’t Stay Home
    • Myth Busters: Mouth Taping
      Myth Busters: Mouth Taping
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Famous Fictional Band
      Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Famous Fictional Band
    • Is Bad Bunny Cursed?
      Is Bad Bunny Cursed?
    • Celebrating the Success of HBO’s “The Last of Us”
      Celebrating the Success of HBO’s “The Last of Us”
  • Campus Culture
    • Mezeh Mediterranean Grill Opens Their Doors
      Mezeh Mediterranean Grill Opens Their Doors
    • The Single Girls of State:  The Spring Break Tunnel Song
      The Single Girls of State: The Spring Break Tunnel Song
    • The Campus Celebrity
      The Campus Celebrity
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • Princess Polly and PacSun: Fashion’s Newest Collaboration
      Princess Polly and PacSun: Fashion’s Newest Collaboration
    • Time for Spring Cleaning: Sustainable and Profitable
      Time for Spring Cleaning: Sustainable and Profitable
    • Everything (sold out) Everywhere All at Once
      Everything (sold out) Everywhere All at Once
  • Self-Improvement
    • The Struggles of Being the Third Wheel in Your Friend Group
      The Struggles of Being the Third Wheel in Your Friend Group
    • Stop Calling Women You Dislike “Pick-Me Girls”
      Stop Calling Women You Dislike “Pick-Me Girls”
    • Instagram is a Dating App
      Instagram is a Dating App
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
      Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
    • A Flesh-Eating Drug Taking Over The United States
      A Flesh-Eating Drug Taking Over The United States
    • Controversy caused by the Willow Project
      Controversy caused by the Willow Project
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Abby Thomas

Abby Thomas is a sophomore print writer for VALLEY. Fresh out of her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, she is an avid lover of dogs, music, the beach, and traveling. In her free time, you can catch her sipping on some matcha green tea and binge watching thriller films.

Fashion

How to Successfully Style Your Puffer Coat

By Abby Thomas

Here are some outfit ideas that take your puffer coat from being extra and in the way to being the chic star of the show.

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Campus Culture

Light up Your Life with LED Lights

By Abby Thomas

Do you ever walk through campus or downtown and see residence buildings with glowing, color-changing windows?

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Entertainment, Valloween

Old Movies to Revisit this Halloween

By Abby Thomas

It’s always fun to break out the vintage stuff, especially during the spookiest season of the year. While the horror films of today have impressive…

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Fashion

Reducing Fashion’s Environmental Shoe Print

By Abby Thomas

Textile production has been found to be one of the world’s most polluting industries, surpassing the carbon dioxide emissions of both international flights and maritime…

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Campus Culture, Events

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month!

By Abby Thomas

October is the month recognized as LGBTQ+ history month in the U.S. According to lgbthistorymonth.com, it all began back in 1994, when a Missouri high…

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Entertainment

Oh, Yeezus: Kanye West Stuns Social Media Again

By Abby Thomas

Earlier this year, rapper and Yeezy designer Kanye West shook the Twitterverse through a series of tweets, professing his love for several right-wing speakers as…

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Fashion

Claudia Li: Destroying Stereotypes at NYFW 2018

By Abby Thomas

Improving model diversity has been a popular topic in the fashion world for a long time now. Fashion shows have been notorious for featuring models…

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Entertainment

Diva Drama: Nicki Minaj’s Recent Feuds

By Abby Thomas

We all remember that time period where Nicki Minaj and Lil’ Kim were nonstop trashing each other in their songs. And, it sure is hard…

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Beauty & Health

What’s in the Water?

By Abby Thomas

There’s no doubt about it – hydration is a crucial element for healthy skin. Even oily skin requires consistent moisturizing so it won’t end up…

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Campus Culture

Opposites Can Attract: Dealing with Roommate Differences

By Abby Thomas

For most of us, moving into our required on-campus residence hall freshman year was the very first time we experienced a roommate. If you’re lucky,…

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Campus Culture, Features

Mohamed Reda Koraichi: Connecting Creativity Across Cultures

By Abby Thomas

We wear clothing and accessories every day. We slip on a sweater when it’s chilly, throw on some shorts in the heat of summertime and…

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Campus Culture

Enough is Enough: Marching for Our Lives on Washington

By Abby Thomas

I have a confession to make: Before March 24, 2018, I had never been to a march or a protest. I was never lucky enough…

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Entertainment

We Love “Love, Simon”

By Abby Thomas

Romantic comedies are nothing new to us. Their plots almost always surround a cheesy love story between a man and a woman battling predictable twists…

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Entertainment

Going Bonkers for “Black Panther”

By Abby Thomas

Marvel has done it again, folks. The plight of Wakanda is taking the globe by storm this year in a movie that both fans and…

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Entertainment

Netflix Spotlight: “Black Mirror”

By Abby Thomas

Technology has become a huge part of our daily lives. Most of us struggle to not look at our cell phones for more than five…

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Campus Culture

Axis Allies

By Abby Thomas

With THON just around the corner, a hundred organizations around campus are finally setting down their cans, reeling in their THONvelopes and getting ready for…

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Fashion

Red Carpet Fashion at the 60th Annual Grammys

By Abby Thomas

It’s Grammy season again! “Music’s Biggest Night” celebrated its 60th anniversary last Sunday at Madison Square Garden, and the fashion worn by stars on the…

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Beauty & Health

Combatting a Cold Naturally

By Abby Thomas

Natural health remedies used to be (and are sometimes still) something to be giggled at. We’ve all heard the funny ones like bathing in tomato…

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Entertainment

New Year, New Lineups: Music Festivals of 2018

By Abby Thomas

The start of a new year means a lot of new things–new resolutions, new beginnings, new classes. VALLEY is especially excited for the new season of…

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Campus Culture

Merry Subscriptsmas: Last-Minute Gift Ideas In A Crunch

By Abby Thomas

While Christmastime is truly the most wonderful time of the year, it can also be the most chaotic. ‘Tis the season for glittering lights, joyful…

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Founded in 2007, VALLEY is Penn State's premier student-run life and style magazine. Our mission is to recognize other students for their academic and extracurricular accomplishments, and to feature local style, entertainment and lifestyle trends. We publish one print issue a semester and also post daily online content throughout the academic year.

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