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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

“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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Entertainment

The Best Flawed Female Characters from Award Season

By Sara Harkins

In an era where male characters are always given forgiveness, love and redemption despite their fatal flaws, it has become revolutionary to give a female…

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Self-Improvement

POV: Your Perfect Imaginary Day Without Anxiety

By Sara Harkins

You wake up naturally without the alarm, and for a while, you just lie there and let thoughts come and go. No need to impulsively…

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Entertainment

Chloe x Halle: Breaking Down Hype vs. Hyper-Sexualization

By Sara Harkins

No doubt, 22-year-old Chloe Bailey and her sister Halle Bailey, 20, have taken the entertainment industry by storm. After signing with Parkwood Entertainment and becoming…

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Campus Culture, THON

THON May Seem Different, But Go Go Gadjet is the Same

By Sara Harkins

They’ve done it again. Every year during THON we look forward to Go Go Gadjet’s performance sealing the final hours. As they said in an…

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Entertainment

Why You Need to Watch “To All The Boys 3”

By Sara Harkins

The final installment of the “To All the Boys” series comes out Feb. 12, and we’re pretty emotional about it. What we know so far…

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Entertainment

Why Poetry Matters Again

By Sara Harkins

It is no secret — poetry has become a staple among people over the past few years. Going through a breakup? Read “Milk & Honey”…

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Entertainment

Rina Sawayama: ‘not British enough’ for the Mercury Prize

By Sara Harkins

Rina Sawayama is a 30-year-old, queer, Japanese-British woman breaking into the pop scene. Or rather, changing it. Sawayama started blowing up in 2017 after hit…

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This Just In

FKA Twigs Battles Shia LaBeouf and Marginalization

By Sara Harkins

Think about the number of times a woman has thought, “no one is ever going to believe me,” and then think of how many times…

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Founded in 2007, VALLEY is one of Penn State's premier student-run life and style magazines. Our mission is to bring style, entertainment and lifestyle trends to our Penn State students, community and beyond. We publish one print issue a semester and also post daily online content throughout the year.

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