psu | VALLEY Magazine

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…

Campus Culture

We Yearn for the Medieval Times

By Nishita Bhanushali

Scroll. Switch back to your show. Scroll again. The never-ending sense of dread with procrastinating and being addicted to your phone can take over your…

Campus Culture

Be Kind to College Athletes

By Beyla Holbrook

Because of Penn State’s football losing streak, many students and fans have been overly harsh online. While the Yik Yak posts can fill your dorm…

Campus Culture

Fuck My Big Fat Chungus Life

By Becca Fein

My article for VALLEY this week is going in a bit of a different direction than I usually tend to take. I’m going to be…

Beauty & Health, Recipes

Stack Your Gains: Protein Pancakes

By Samantha Cormier

T here’s nothing like a fresh stack of pancakes on a Sunday morning to satisfy a sweet tooth, but what if VALLEY says there’s a…

Self-Improvement

When Social Media Gets Too Personal

By Ashley Gunnett

Picture yourself scrolling through TikTok, and coming across a story time from a stranger about the most traumatic experience of their life. The comments are…

This Just In

You Have Bewitched Me, Keyboard and Screen

By Ari Lee

After a long day of droning lectures and the chaos of a bustling campus, it always feels nice to sit back and unwind by talking…

Self-Improvement

Table for One

By Gabriella Vitabile

There is something quietly romantic about walking into a coffee shop alone. You order your drink, find a seat by the window and watch the world move around…

This Just In

Louvre robbery results in $102 million worth of missing jewels

By Nika Nazarizadeh

On October 19, on what started as a typical day in Paris, ended very unusually when the Galerie d’Apollon of the Louvre was robbed. The robbery occurred during regular operating hours and only lasted a couple of minutes.

Self-Improvement

The Spotlight Effect

By Abbie Rice

There’s a psychological phenomenon that explains why when you trip on the divet in the sidewalk, you feel like everyone is staring, pointing and laughing….

Self-Improvement

Let’s Tauk About Montauk General

By Farrell Duffy

The Montauk General Store is a luxury lifestyle brand that focuses on providing customers with “a curation of high-quality goods,” including its signature homegrown matcha…

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,…

Self-Improvement

How To Be Sustainably Spooky

By Ari Lee

Spirits, spiders and all kinds of creatures of the night come out to play during the month of October. Scariest of all, though, is the…

Self-Improvement

Silent Witnesses

By Abbie Rice

We attach memories to objects as a reminder of our past. Much like the stuffed animal or the blanket you’ve had since you were a…

Entertainment

Radio Killed The Video Star

By Molly McMenamy

MTV started in 1981. The television channel was one of the first to show music videos. Think Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” full of Zombies or Cyndi…

Campus Culture

Penn State experiences we don’t have words for yet

By Nika Nazarizadeh

Being Penn State students, we go through some experiences that are definitely abnormal. And if they are normal, there aren’t really words to describe the experience or feeling to someone who hasn’t lived through it themselves. Sometimes it may be hard to describe the confusion of an experience, the joy or even the fear. Here is VALLEY’s list of Penn State experiences that there just aren’t quite words for yet…