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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
Sara Harkins

Sara Harkins

Sara Harkins is currently a senior at Penn State studying Advertising with a minor in Information Sciences and Technology and Digital Media Trends & Analytics. She loves watching movies and squinting to read books on her phone at night. When she is not writing, she is probably watching skincare videos on youtube.

Entertainment

Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2022 Entertainment Opener: Sofi Choinski

By Sara Harkins

“My favorite thing is just going to ballet; it has a certain level of structure about it. I just think it’s really interesting to be…

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Self-Improvement

What Introverts Think at Parties

By Sara Harkins

You ever just go somewhere and stand around? Parties can be overwhelming and anxiety-inducing, but sometimes the best way to get through is to make…

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Self-Improvement

POV: What People Think When you Read in Public

By Sara Harkins

You’re sitting sideways on a cold bench, burying your head into your scarf. Leaves are falling perfectly around you while subtle breeze lifts your hair….

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Self-Improvement

Your Quick Guided Fall Meditation

By Sara Harkins

Fall is not about letting go and neither is fall meditation. Instead, it’s about allowing the world to move forward and accepting the way our…

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Beauty & Health

K-Beauty and J-Beauty Makeup Products You Need

By Sara Harkins

Futuristic as it is, there’s something comfy about the essence of K-beauty and J-beauty. Maybe it’s the fact that you know your skin will look…

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Self-Improvement

If Disney Villains did Therapy-speak

By Sara Harkins

“You are allowed to feel that way,” and “your emotions are valid,” have left the therapist’s office and come into our language. Since therapy-speak has…

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Fashion

The Past Lives of your Vintage Clothes

By Sara Harkins

You’ve finally found her — the one you’ve been looking for all along. Her bright colors and grungy but cute Y2K silhouette is sure to…

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Entertainment

Entertainment that Reflects the Asian Experience

By Sara Harkins

Audiences tend to gravitate toward Asian entertainment that will be enjoyable for them to watch. But entertainment that carefully reflects an Asian experience is often…

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Entertainment

What Are Jane Austen’s Characters Doing Now?

By Sara Harkins

There’s a reason why Jane Austen’s characters have been repurposed so many times — why, they’ve simply bewitched us. We’ve seen how Emma fared in…

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Self-Improvement

What You Text vs. What You Mean

By Sara Harkins

So, you’ve decoded every period, exclamation point and extra “ha” on the “haha.” You’ve mastered the art of “thumbspeaking” and text talk, and you’re finally…

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Self-Improvement

Addressing the Ghosts from your Past

By Sara Harkins

As spooky season kicks off, this semester has started exposing some scary occurrences. The rates of ghost sightings have risen more than ever! When “no…

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Fashion

Law Roach: The Force Behind your Dream Looks

By Sara Harkins

You probably remember Anya Taylor Joy’s serpent green Golden Globes look. How about Celine Dion’s fashion makeover, or Zendaya’s light-up Cinderella Met Gala dress? You…

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Self-Improvement

A Pep Talk From Your Plants

By Sara Harkins

Now that you’re settling into school and adjusting to the semester, your houseplants are enjoying their new job of spicing up your room and brightening…

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Self-Improvement

7 Nostalgic Summer Activities to Make You Smile

By Sara Harkins

A wise icon from one of our favorite 2000s rom-coms once said, “I think all of us want to feel something that we’ve forgotten or…

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Entertainment

Our Modern ‘Love Story’: Ownership

By Sara Harkins

“No, I’ve decided. I want to own my own book” says Jo March in the final moments of Greta Gerwig’s 2019 rendition of “Little Women.”…

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Beauty & Health

‘Guilt-Free’ Snacking — Having No Shame in What You Eat

By Sara Harkins

You’re walking around the grocery store, riding on the cart — when no one is looking — and cruising down the aisles. As you stop…

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Beauty & Health

Beauty and Brains: The Rise of Mental Health x Beauty Products

By Sara Harkins

The beauty industry has long capitalized off of the idea that we constantly need to look better, and that a product is the key to…

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This Just In

OPINION: America’s Fetishization and Underrepresentation of Asian Women

By Sara Harkins

My mom walked down the stairs on Friday, March 12, and said, “These Asian hate crimes are getting scary.” That following Tuesday, news of the…

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This Just In

New Teen Vogue Editor-In-Chief Resigns over Past Racist Tweets

By Sara Harkins

Alexi McCammond, the former prominent political reporter for Washington news site Axios, was set to formally start her new role as editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue…

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Campus Culture

“What? Like, it’s hard?” Your Virtual Career Fair Guide

By Sara Harkins

Conquering career fairs in-person is hard enough; adding virtual technology into the mix doesn’t exactly soothe the nerves. If you are stressing, regretting, searching for…

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