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  • Beauty & Health
    • Alter Your Energy
      Alter Your Energy
    • Winter Skin Survival Guide
      Winter Skin Survival Guide
    • Rise Above Your Station
      Rise Above Your Station
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
      Welcome to Derry: A New Chapter for an Old Fear
    • GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
      GAP’s “Give Your Gift” Holiday Campaign
    • Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
      Christmas Craze: The Starbucks Bearista Cup
  • Campus Culture
    • Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
      Students Support Peers Amid SNAP Uncertainty
    • Virtual Reality Showcase
      Virtual Reality Showcase
    • Greek Sing 2025 Recap
      Greek Sing 2025 Recap
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
      What Are You Wearing to the End of the World?
    • 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
      2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Red Carpet Looks
    • Wrong Pants Theory
      Wrong Pants Theory
  • Self-Improvement
    • Little Me & My Twenties
      Little Me & My Twenties
    • Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
      Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
    • Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
      Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • The People’s Voices
      The People’s Voices
    • NYC Marathon 2025
      NYC Marathon 2025
    • Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media
      Zohran Mamdani and The Politics of Social Media

Alyssa Opris

Alyssa Opris is currently a senior studying Digital & Print Journalism, with a minor in Art History & English. Besides writing, she likes reading strange books, making coffee and makeshift meals, and taking picturesque walks with her friends.

Fashion

Street Style Winter 2023 Spotlight: Copenhagen

By Alyssa Opris

As you enter the depths of Copenhagen, Denmark, prepare for a world of vibrancy and childlike muse. This fall and winter’s season of fashion week…

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Self-Improvement

The Celibate Slut

By Alyssa Opris

It’s you, it’s me, it’s us. The oxymoron that is the celibate slut entails this — a slut in theory but never in practice. Is…

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This Just In

The Search and Discovery for Cleopatra’s Tomb

By Alyssa Opris

A historic breakthrough is underway as archaeologists in Egypt have come one step closer to uncovering where Cleopatra rests. Her exact cause of death remains…

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Entertainment

There’s Something About Normal People

By Alyssa Opris

Fun fact of the day: Matty Healy actually read “Normal People,” watched Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal passionately fall in love the most infuriating way…

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Fashion

Androgyny: The Essence of Fashion

By Alyssa Opris

At its core, fashion can be expressive, but mute. Bold, but soft. It can be that all at once. History has shown that fashion responds…

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Beauty & Health

The Best of Vogue Beauty Secrets

By Alyssa Opris

The greatest advice you can receive on makeup, skincare and hair comes from those who are experts in the game. Or rather, people who somehow…

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Fashion

The Casual American Vs The Formal European

By Alyssa Opris

The ultimate battle across the pond. The convoluted fashion sense from each country directly influences one another, but European and American fashion act as the…

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Self-Improvement

Know The Culture You Wear

By Alyssa Opris

With Halloween about to approach, this is a great time to remind you of our old friend culture appropriation. Its sister, cultural appreciation, is often…

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Self-Improvement

The Art of People Watching

By Alyssa Opris

From VALLEY to you, here is a gift of socially acceptable stalking. Just kidding? Maybe? Well, do not be too alarmed — you are not…

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Self-Improvement

Celebrity Spotlight: Emilia Clarke

By Alyssa Opris

Mother of dragons, or mother of our hearts? VALLEY says both. The London-born actress has certainly managed to capture the hearts of millions, and for…

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This Just In

Mahsa Amini: The Spark That Lit the Fire

By Alyssa Opris

It starts with a girl. Her name is Mahsa Amini. She was a 22-year-old woman from Saqqez, a Kurdish province in Iran, who was visiting…

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Self-Improvement

Stop Trying To Be an Aesthetic

By Alyssa Opris

Apologies for the cheesy advice you are about to read, but if no one has told you yet, you do not have to conform to…

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Beauty & Health

6 Paintings to Inspire Your Next Look

By Alyssa Opris

The style advice you never knew you needed. Here at VALLEY, you can always expect to find new ways to explore your individuality and further…

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Self-Improvement

First Generation College Scaries

By Alyssa Opris

To all the first generation students out there who feel like something is holding them back, this one is for you. At University Park alone,…

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Self-Improvement

On the Subject of Loneliness

By Alyssa Opris

Learning how to be alone is the keystone to your peace. It can feel so daunting, going through moments alone when it would be easier…

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