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    • VALLEY’S Guide on Healing Your Hormones
      VALLEY’S Guide on Healing Your Hormones
    • 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
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Taylor Swift’s Refreshing View on Heartbreak
      All Of The Girls You Loved Before: Taylor Swift’s Refreshing View on Heartbreak
    • “Swarm”: A Satirical Blend of Horror and Comedy
      “Swarm”: A Satirical Blend of Horror and Comedy
    • We are a Part of the Games
      We are a Part of the Games
  • Campus Culture
    • Penn State 2023 NFL Prospects
      Penn State 2023 NFL Prospects
    • Starbucks Must-Tries: From Campus Baristas
      Starbucks Must-Tries: From Campus Baristas
    • Spring Showcases at State!
      Spring Showcases at State!
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • Donate Over Depop
      Donate Over Depop
    • 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
  • Self-Improvement
    • Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Aries Season
      Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Aries Season
    • VALLEY’s Tips For Balancing Relationships During a Depressive Episode
      VALLEY’s Tips For Balancing Relationships During a Depressive Episode
    • Your Sex Life’s Secret Handbook
      Your Sex Life’s Secret Handbook
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • Trump v. Manhattan: Everything you need to know
      Trump v. Manhattan: Everything you need to know
    • The Pressure Of GEN Z: The Willow Project
      The Pressure Of GEN Z: The Willow Project
    • Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
      Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
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Julia McGinty

Julia McGinty is a junior studying Digital and Print Journalism at Penn State. She loves taking photos of her friends, binging the Vampire Diaries and searching for new things to bake. In her free time you can find her making Spotify playlists, painting or consuming way too much caffeine.

Campus Culture

The Campus Celebrity

By Julia McGinty

For some reason, seeing certain strangers is a noteworthy event. They’d never know it, but being seen constitutes a text to the group chat. For…

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Beauty & Health

Preventing Ingrown Hairs

By Julia McGinty

An ingrown hair is a hair that has started to grow back after being removed that curves under the surface of the skin. Ingrown hairs…

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Entertainment

Paris Hilton is mother

By Julia McGinty

Paris Hilton and her husband Carter Reum have welcomed a baby boy via surrogate. The couple have turned to IVF, in vitro fertilization, in order…

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Beauty & Health

Beware the DIY Skincare

By Julia McGinty

Being a teenager is tough. You’re awkward, your voice is changing and worst of all, breakouts are common and plenty. There was an explosion of…

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Fashion

Why Wear Jeans on the Red Carpet?

By Julia McGinty

Of all the fabrics that could be worn to an awards show or event, denim has to be the most informal. The early 2000s were…

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Entertainment

Why Does My Girlfriend Like Joe Burrow so Much?

By Julia McGinty

Joe Brrr, Joe Shiesty, Joe Cool, “America’s Boyfriend”, the star quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals is known by many different names. As fans have no…

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Beauty & Health

In Support of Lip Stains

By Julia McGinty

According to Gossip Girl’s Serena van der Woodsen, lipstick lasts longer but gloss is more fun. While this fictional It Girl of the Upper East…

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Fashion

Ashley Rous is Redefining Influencer Fashion

By Julia McGinty

It’s not unusual to change career paths. In fact, it happens all the time. However, when it comes to a platform like YouTube, leaving is…

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Campus Culture

What your favorite coffee place says about you

By Julia McGinty

If coffee could be put into an IV, trust that there would be college students getting hooked up to a bag solely for the caffeine…

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Campus Culture

VALLEY’s Penn State Predictions

By Julia McGinty

With just shy of two months left in 2022, the promise of a new year looms. With that comes a host of unanswered questions and…

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Self-Improvement

How To Gift Thoughtfully

By Julia McGinty

The holiday season is full of things to celebrate. It’s a time to spend with family and loved ones, often while sharing gifts. However, giving…

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Entertainment

How Sue C’s It

By Julia McGinty

With her tracksuit, scheming and unflinching ability to yell at teenagers, Sue Sylvester, played by Jane Lynch, remains one of the most memorable characters on…

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Campus Culture

The Best Places to Take a Call on Campus

By Julia McGinty

Oh, the telephone. A wonderful tool that has connected billions of people since the time of its conception. It’s doubtful that the inventors would have…

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Entertainment

Lindsay Lohan Saves Christmas

By Julia McGinty

Lindsay Lohan’s influence on cinema can easily rival that of Leonardo DiCaprio’s. After all, Lindsay Lohan could have done Inception, but DiCaprio could’ve never done…

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Fashion

Nipple visibility, why the stigma?

By Julia McGinty

A man’s nipple. A woman’s nipple. But what makes these nipples different? And what small feature about them divides the public’s perception? Let’s talk about…

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Beauty & Health

Celebrities, They Eat Just Like Us!

By Julia McGinty

Brad Pitt eating pizza? Will wonders never cease! In a series of amusing PR moves, celebrities have been enlisted to detail the absolute ins and…

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Fashion

The Allure of a Celebrity Brand Ambassador

By Julia McGinty

Brand visibility is one thing that every fashion label must attain in order to succeed. Each brand’s ideal demographics may vary, but wanting to be…

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This Just In

Multiple Mass Shootings Bombard the U.S.

By Julia McGinty

There is a grim and prevalent trend seen across the United States, mass shootings. In addition to the highly publicized shooting that took place in…

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Fashion

Dressing for Spring in State College

By Julia McGinty

The weather in central Pennsylvania, especially around springtime, is bound to be temperamental. Unfortunately, aside from keeping a ready eye on the weather app, there’s…

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Self-Improvement

Revisiting the Interests of Younger You

By Julia McGinty

They say that you never quite let go of what you loved in your teens. Granted, most college students are not at all far from…

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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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