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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
    • 100 Years of Kick Lines & Sequins
      100 Years of Kick Lines & Sequins
    • 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
  • 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

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.

Campus Culture, Features

Spring 2023 COVER STORY: Where Love Lived First

By Sara Harkins

They say that grief merely exists where love once lived. In a beige house, with green shutters and flowers decorating the perimeter, is where Jacqueline…

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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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