VALLEY’s Guide To Remaining Sane During Job Application Season
With job application season approaching, it can be easy to get over indulged in the possible plans for your future and the unknown of after…
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Our college years are full of dramatic “I’m not a grown up!” moments- mostly unexpected, and typically unwanted. Anonymous Valley writers discuss it all: from avoiding basic responsibilities to dealing with the big, bad future. Let’s talk about it.
Staying Sane During Finals Week
Ah, winter break is just around the corner. As the fall semester quickly comes to a bittersweet end, there is a single phrase that haunts…
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Let’s Talk About Therapy
One thing that can be known to have a bad reputation through society and word of mouth, especially through out college campuses, is therapy.
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College Crisis: I Hate My Boyfriend’s Girl Friends
She’s that girl you love to hate, and you hate that other people love. She’s somehow simultaneously the seemingly unattainable girl next door and just one…
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Best Friend Breakups
Everyone talks about the heartbreak you face when you lose a significant other, but something you hear about less often is the emotional trauma you…
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College Crisis: I Survived BASICs
You’ve heard the rumors, but you never think it’ll happen to you — that is until one night when maybe things get out of hand…
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How to Handle Prickly Professors
During the four years spent in college classrooms, everyone is bound to run into a professor or two that we believe is out to get…
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College Crisis: Reversing the Stigma Around Therapy
I was embarrassed to be going to therapy. There. I said it. It is 2018, and yet, some people still think that going to talk…
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Starting a New Relationship with an Expiration Date
Do we stay together? Are we even together? Should we never speak again? We don’t know what the right or wrong thing is to say.
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How to Share Friends After a Breakup
Keep your friends close and know that just because you share friends with your ex, you don’t have to remove those friends from your life.
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College Crisis: Moving in With The Boyfriend
In their eyes, I was still the baby. As the youngest of three girls, it was understood in my household that I was not yet…
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Is Greek Life Dead? No, But A Young Man Named Timothy Piazza Is.
I’ve overheard several students make the reactionary statement, “Greek life is dead.” When hearing that word used in that context, it made me realize how the passage of time can make people become desensitized to tragedy.
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College Crisis: My Clothes Do Not Define Me
“I tried on one of my favorite articles of clothing; a denim skirt. I looked at myself in the mirror, pleased with what I saw. Suddenly a thought popped into my head. I thought about how the last time I wore that skirt I didn’t feel safe when the guy at the bar put his hand on my thigh.”
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College Crisis: I Was The Other Woman
We’re only human and we’re only college students.
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College Crisis: Sorority Rush Drop Out
I quickly realized that Greek life wasn’t for me and was extremely disappointed since I had always pictured myself in a sorority.
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College Crisis: Bad Roommates Made Me Miserable
Whether you’re living with your closest friends or random strangers, everyone has had to deal with a difficult roommate at one point or another.
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Why The Stigmatization of “Sorority Girls” Needs to End
Amy Schumer once said, “My real beauty… lies in my ability to truly not give a sh*t what anyone thinks of me.” While I do my best to live up to these wise words, I’m not ashamed to explain the one time I didn’t.
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College Crisis: Why I Broke Up With The Perfect Guy
So many times, it has to do with infidelity or falling out of love. Maybe one person even meets someone new. All these reasons are concrete and absolutely valid, but none of them apply to me.
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College Crisis: The Last Day
Even though I’ll be here until Thursday, this feels like my last night here. Almost all of my friends have gone back to their respective hometowns or on adventurous trips abroad. Very few students remain in town, or at least that’s how I feel.
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College Crisis: Sometimes You Just Need to Cry
Sometimes you just need a really good cry. The kind of cry that is so intense that you cannot stop until it’s gotten to the point that your tear ducts have dried up and you absolutely need a tissue.
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