Get Comfortable With Chaos
Your time at university is truly a unique experience that those who didn’t attend college will never understand. With the typical college education spanning four…
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Shoot, My Mom Was Right
Growing up my mom would practically beg me to wear what she suggested. Nonetheless, I always turned a blind eye. The number of dresses, sweaters…
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Your Siblings Shadow
As the youngest child, you are often expected to live up to your older siblings’ achievements. Everyone strives for recognition and appreciation, but it seems…
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The Other Half of My Friendship Necklace
To my (and anyone else’s) childhood best friend, It’s been years since we’ve talked. Since the middle school drama and the “fights” that I don’t…
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Your College Apartment Memory Book
Whether you’re a graduating senior or a sophomore who is just looking for a change in your living situation next year, your apartment holds many…
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Celebrating Cousins
Parents are your main guides through life, siblings are your annoying 18-year-long roommates, grandparents are your sources of eternal wisdom and aunts and uncles are…
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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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Can You Reinvent Yourself in College?
For some of us, college was the chance to start over. To start fresh. To begin again. We all came to our freshman-year dorms in…
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Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2023 Fashion Section Opener: Sammy Vaillancourt
Sammy Vaillancourt, a second-year studying corporate innovation and entrepreneurship and psychology, views fashion as more than a way to express yourself, but a means to…
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Jibril Washington
Growing up in a rough neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jibril Washington always knew that there was more for him.
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Return To The Hundred Acre Woods: “Christopher Robin” Will Bring You To Tears
If you haven’t already seen the new “Winnie the Pooh” movie, “Christopher Robin,” it is a must! Although this may seem like a children’s movie,…
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7 Reasons Why Dad Is The Best Cure For Any Situation
Sometimes your days get hard, none of your friends can tell you the right things or give you the right advice, you’ve heard your mom’s kind words a lot lately and you then realize dad is next in line to call.
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Dealing with Disapproval
You can officially eat Easy Mac for breakfast, Ben & Jerry’s for lunch, and use the leftovers for dinner without anyone telling you not to. But just because you’re in college now doesn’t mean there aren’t some things you still have to answer to your family about, and more often than we’d like, the answer they come up with is ‘No.’
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