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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
    • Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
      Unbuckling Your Chastity Belt
    • Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
      Are You Who Said You’d Be? 
    • Selective Sinners
      Selective Sinners
    • 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

Julia Ratner

Bethenny Frankel’s viral “Supermodel Snack” you’ll want to try tonight
Beauty & Health

Bethenny Frankel’s viral “Supermodel Snack” you’ll want to try tonight

By Julia Ratner

TikTok has found its latest snack craze, and it’s all thanks to reality TV star turned lifestyle boss Bethenny Frankel’s. The former Real Housewives of New York…

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Rotting or Healing: Why Reality TV is Good for You
Entertainment

Rotting or Healing: Why Reality TV is Good for You

By Julia Ratner

Reality TV is for a niche audience. For some, it’s a guilty pleasure hidden in their “continue watching” section. For others, it’s a love that…

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Sleepmaxxing: How to Dream Big
Beauty & Health

Sleepmaxxing: How to Dream Big

By Julia Ratner

Sleepmaxxing is a new word that may sound bizarre but has been buzzing around TikTok and other social media platforms. Any influencer’s routine you’ve watched,…

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Self-Improvement

Working 9-5 before your 9-5

By Julia Ratner

Happy Valley is happy again! The sidewalks are packed like your high school hallways, the sun is shining, but you wake up this morning with…

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Entertainment

CharliXCX and Lorde: It’s More Than Just a Song

By Julia Ratner

Well, it happened. They worked it out on the remix and the internet went crazy. Coachella 2025 was anything but chill and relaxed. It’s been…

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Beauty & Health

Revamping the Revived: Beauty You Love To Bring Back

By Julia Ratner

Chelsea Parke Kramer has become a household name within the beauty space. I know what you’re thinking: Beauty? Not fashion? Yes, beauty. Another side of…

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Fashion

Introducing Your New Boyfriend: Pete Davidson

By Julia Ratner

If you’re not living under a rock in the fashion world, you’ve heard of Reformation. It’s the iconic sustainable clothing brand that’s eco-friendly and high…

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Beauty & Health

No Shame in the Plump Game: Breaking the Stigma

By Julia Ratner

It’s not shocking when you see your favorite celebrities’ faces pulled up by invisible strings. Suddenly, their skin is tight, eyes are wide. Maybe their…

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Campus Culture

Turning College Moments into Banner-Worthy Memories

By Julia Ratner

It’s Penn State, anything here can be turned into an excuse to celebrate. 100 on your exam? You’re going out that night. Finally ended it…

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Self-Improvement

It’s Not You, It’s Them

By Julia Ratner

It’s a problem that not only Happy Valley faces, but a problem that every single or taken college student struggles with. The stigma of having…

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Entertainment

White Lotus Season 3: A Trip to Thailand

By Julia Ratner

Happy Valley has been waaaay too cold lately. We need a trip to a tropical oasis. Specifically to Koh Sumai, Thailand to the White Lotus…

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Self-Improvement

The Not So Lonely Life Of An Only Child

By Julia Ratner

Since I can remember, every time I’ve revealed my fun fact, I’d be relished in agreance: “You’re such an only child.” Only Child Representation I…

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Fashion

Bring back the reign of King Kylie

By Julia Ratner

The year 2016 rings clear in my mind. My mom and I drove on the coastal highway heading to Malibu for brunch blasting “One Dance”…

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Fashion

I brought eight different coats back to school, you should too.

By Julia Ratner

Coats are in. Yes, obviously coats are in. They’re always in, it’s a coat. But, now they’re starting to be the star of the outfit….

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Entertainment

Why The New Outer Banks Season Is Receiving Backlash From Fans

By Julia Ratner

VALLEY does not know a single person who hasn’t watched Outer Banks. The hit show began streaming in April of 2020, the peak of Covid…

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Beauty & Health

From Skincare to Haircare: CeraVe Launches New Hair Products

By Julia Ratner

We all know and love CeraVe’s skincare products. From their moisturizer to their cleanser, both dermatologists and VALLEY will always be obsessed. We know what…

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Self-Improvement, VALLEY

The Architecture of The College Roman Empire

By Julia Ratner

This time a year ago, the world was asking themselves: how many times a day do we think about the Roman Empire? A week? A…

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Beauty & Health

VALLEY’s new favorite siblings: The New Glossier You Duo

By Julia Ratner

You know and love it. Truthfully, I don’t know anyone (literally anyone) who doesn’t love Glossier You. No one can get enough of this smell…

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Beauty & Health

I smell that special someone

By Julia Ratner

We know the feeling all too well: it’s a new season, the leaves on the trees are changing and you need a new scent to…

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Self-Improvement

When it’s time to break the cycle: situationships

By Julia Ratner

Situationship: when two people get together, hook up, are exclusive but not exclusive at the same time, aren’t dating but can be seen together in…

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