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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

Sophia Monteforte

The Bible Has Spoken; Boyfriends Are Embarrassing
Self-Improvement

The Bible Has Spoken; Boyfriends Are Embarrassing

By Sophia Monteforte

Well, potentially. A few weeks ago, Vogue put out an article that debates whether or not having a boyfriend is embarrassing. Writer Chanté Joseph broke…

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Keeping Up In State College
Beauty & Health

Keeping Up In State College

By Sophia Monteforte

Students don’t move into college until they are about 17 or 18 years old. That is almost 20 years of perfecting your maintenance routine with…

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60% of Whatever That Is
Beauty & Health

60% of Whatever That Is

By Sophia Monteforte

The human body averages to be about 50-60% of water depending on height, weight and all those kinds of things. Researchers share this statistic as…

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DWTS Fashion Earns A 10
Fashion

DWTS Fashion Earns A 10

By Sophia Monteforte

“Dancing with the Stars” is a show that brings the glitz and glamor of ballroom dancing to live television. It is apparent that their creative…

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Penn State: Then & Now
Campus Culture

Penn State: Then & Now

By Sophia Monteforte

Everyone always reminisces about summer 2016 and the chokehold those styles, artists and trends had on society. Look back about eight years earlier and Penn…

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Life of a Bad Cook
Beauty & Health

Life of a Bad Cook

By Sophia Monteforte

For some people, the kitchen is their sanctuary. Their apartment is always filled with the smells of an Asian fusion roasted chicken or vodka gnocchi…

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Self-Improvement

A Lady Gaga Summer

By Sophia Monteforte

Summers are measured by the expectations we set with our friends before it starts. Last summer Charlie XCX introduced a “brat summer” and a couple…

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Fashion

Justice For Adults

By Sophia Monteforte

In a world where science is just an educated guess, it would be scientifically proven that any girl whose wardrobe was only from Justice has…

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Self-Improvement

Be A Benny Blanco in a World of Andrew Tates 

By Sophia Monteforte

The percentage of men in the entire world is roughly 50.4% according to google analytics. Out of that 50.4% it is safe to say that…

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Beauty & Health

Water Tastes Better Colorful and Cold

By Sophia Monteforte

Water has been a necessity for survival since the beginning of time. The marketing for water has evolved over the years and become a money…

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Beauty & Health

Five Things To Run From On The Treadmill

By Sophia Monteforte

The treadmill: a scary, endless track that makes people feel like hamsters on a never-ending wheel. Some people find harmony on the treadmill while others…

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Beauty & Health

Spring Cleaning Your Life

By Sophia Monteforte

The spring break jitters and hangovers are over. It is time to get into the refreshing part of spring that does not consist of sleeping…

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Beauty & Health

At Home Rage Room

By Sophia Monteforte

Society has given people the pleasure of having designated places to lash out and break inanimate objects uncontrollably, not at a furniture store or classroom,…

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Beauty & Health

10,000 Steps Towards Greatness

By Sophia Monteforte

Trust me we get it, there are 1,000 different reasons why you can’t go to the gym today. At this point, we have exhausted nearly…

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Campus Culture

We’re All A Little Overbooked

By Sophia Monteforte

One of the benefits that Penn State admissions pushes onto prospective students is that they have over 1,000 clubs that you can join. While this…

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Campus Culture

The Stories Our Suitcase Holds

By Sophia Monteforte

It’s that time of year again when college students pack the last 11 weeks of their lives into a suitcase and go back home for…

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Self-Improvement

Our Right of Passage As Women

By Sophia Monteforte

Everyone is familiar with the excuse that anytime a woman does something wrong they respond with “I’m just a girl.” This has enraged men to…

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Self-Improvement

Is It Sweet & Endearing, Or Is It an Ick?

By Sophia Monteforte

Cracking down beyond the surface level with a situationship or on a first date is one of the most fulfilling yet dreary stages of a…

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Self-Improvement

You Just Get Me

By Sophia Monteforte

The pressure of finding friends in college is not just finding someone to walk to class with or someone to go to the dining hall…

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Campus Culture

No Fall Break, No Problem: The Power To Create Your Own Fall Break

By Sophia Monteforte

Some people take a Sunday to reset their life or a weekend away from the hustle and bustle of State College to clear their head,…

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