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  • Beauty & Health
    • The Personality Of Favorites
      The Personality Of Favorites
    • Glow and Go: Why SPF Makeup Is Your Next Beauty Must-Have
      Glow and Go: Why SPF Makeup Is Your Next Beauty Must-Have
    • The Juice Edit
      The Juice Edit
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • De-Glorifying Celebrity Couples
      De-Glorifying Celebrity Couples
    • Temptation Island: The Men are not Men, They’re Children
      Temptation Island: The Men are not Men, They’re Children
    • Wrapped in an App: Superfan
      Wrapped in an App: Superfan
  • Campus Culture
    • A Toast to VALLEY
      A Toast to VALLEY
    • Celebrities Who Would’ve Been on VALLEY if They Attended Penn State
      Celebrities Who Would’ve Been on VALLEY if They Attended Penn State
    • Call It A Night
      Call It A Night
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • For the Love of Tote Bags
      For the Love of Tote Bags
    • The Stories Within Your Closet
      The Stories Within Your Closet
    • Music Festivals Are Taking Us Back to 2016
      Music Festivals Are Taking Us Back to 2016
  • Self-Improvement
    • A Lady Gaga Summer
      A Lady Gaga Summer
    • Reconnecting With Pink
      Reconnecting With Pink
    • The Unreliable Narrator of Our Lives
      The Unreliable Narrator of Our Lives
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • Opinion: The Reality of America’s School Shooting Crisis
      Opinion: The Reality of America’s School Shooting Crisis
    • Harvard Sues the Trump Administration
      Harvard Sues the Trump Administration
    • Waste Of Space
      Waste Of Space

Reeya Kulkarni

Reeya Kulkarni, a fourth-year student at Penn State, is pursuing a major in Marketing with a minor in Business Law. She has always been passionate about writing, and can usually be found burying herself in a good book with her favorite playlist playing in the background.

Self-Improvement

The Unreliable Narrator of Our Lives

By Reeya Kulkarni

We all love a good storyteller. Watching your favorite movie or reading your favorite book, the first-person perspective from which the viewer learns about the…

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Fashion

Is That Scarf Really “Scandinavian?”

By Reeya Kulkarni

A fashion influencer on TikTok posted a white woman in a blouse, a long draping skirt and a long shawl-like scarf. She then asked, “What…

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Entertainment

In “Yellowjackets,” Girlhood Kills

By Reeya Kulkarni

A New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team from 1969 has just had their big win and now, they’re going to Nationals in Seattle! These…

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Entertainment

Up and Down the High Fashion Ladder

By Reeya Kulkarni

High fashion houses have been many things — iconic, avant-garde, controversial, and influential. While the clothing itself goes through the ebbs and flows of change,…

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Entertainment

Your “Outie” Loves a Good Marketing Plan

By Reeya Kulkarni

Please enjoy all parts of this article equally. “Severance,” created by Ben Stiller, starring Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro and Zach Cherry, is essentially…

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Fashion

A Recap of the 2024 Fashion Awards

By Reeya Kulkarni

You have the Oscar’s, the Grammy’s, the Tony’s and then you have … the Fashion Awards. Hosted by the British Fashion Council (BFC), the Fashion…

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Campus Culture

Youth is novel, Experience is enduring

By Reeya Kulkarni

College is not, in fact, the best years of your life. Those are still to come. For so many of us, “the best years of…

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Fashion

“Overdressed” Isn’t a Real Thing

By Reeya Kulkarni

You and your friends have been planning to go out to a fun little dinner and you’ve been excited for weeks. The day before, though,…

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Fashion

It’s Time to Ditch the Suit and Tie.

By Reeya Kulkarni

You’re scrolling on Twitter, looking through all the looks from the most recent Met Gala. They’re gorgeous, and you can’t believe your eyes. One of…

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Self-Improvement

The Art of Annotating

By Reeya Kulkarni

Using a permanent black pen to write in a new, clean, crisp book!? Now that’s just blasphemy. Or … is it? What if we told…

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Self-Improvement

Reading is Cool Again … Apparently?

By Reeya Kulkarni

The internet has somehow simultaneously revived and complicated our love for reading. Once upon a time, if you told someone your favorite hobby was reading,…

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Fashion

The Subversive Subcultures of Alternative Fashion

By Reeya Kulkarni

Conforming. What is that, exactly? Often, society sets an unspoken standard for us — a template we should follow when it comes to our behavior…

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This Just In

California Bans Legacy Admissions at Private Universities

By Reeya Kulkarni

On Monday, Oct. 5, Governor Gavin Newsom placed a ban on legacy admissions — the practice of giving admissions preference to relatives of alumni.

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Self-Improvement

That was me, too

By Reeya Kulkarni

“Yeah, I was such an awkward teen — I mean, look at what I was wearing in that picture!” “I want to travel back in…

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Self-Improvement

Creating Our Life Archives

By Reeya Kulkarni

In the minds of each of the 8 million people living on this Earth, there lies a story and a unique set of memories that…

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Self-Improvement

Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2024 Self-Improvement Section Opener: Sarah Strent

By Reeya Kulkarni

When do you know if something is a calling? For Sarah Strent, a fourth-year early childhood and elementary education student, the answer came in the…

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Beauty & Health

Your Signature Makeup Archetype — The Results

By Reeya Kulkarni

VALLEY recently explored “The Makeup Archetype Quiz” which showed us eight makeup archetypes: natural, elegant, gamine, ingenue, classic, modern, dramatic and romantic. This quiz was…

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Beauty & Health

What’s your signature makeup archetype? — A Quiz

By Reeya Kulkarni

Makeup means something different to everyone. To some, it’s a tool for self-expression, being capable of transforming our appearance and enhancing our confidence. To others,…

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This Just In

A Timeline of Boeing’s Controversies This Year

By Reeya Kulkarni

Imagine thinking that you’re going to go about your day perfectly normally, that nothing could happen that would change the monotony of your life. So…

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This Just In

The Kate Middleton Saga — A Lesson?

By Reeya Kulkarni

A couple of weeks ago, the internet experienced an overwhelming amount of trending memes and inside jokes based on current news. Something that people noticed…

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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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