Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2025 Fashion Section Opener: Katie Jo Bagley
Fancy Nancy and Janis Joplin mixed to create Katie Jo Bagley. The fourth-year film student is a free-spirited creative with a knack for self-expression. Amongst…
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Fitness Feeds: Escaping Unrealistic Expectations
Fitness feeds can be a double-edged sword. They start innocently, whether it be a new workout to try or a high protein meal, this content…
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Kickstart Your Semester: Habits to Embrace and Avoid
Since it is a fresh start to a new semester, we all have learned from our past experiences. The more semesters we live at Penn…
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Your Siblings Shadow
As the youngest child, you are often expected to live up to your older siblings’ achievements. Everyone strives for recognition and appreciation, but it seems…
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Perfectionism Isn’t SO Pure
From when we were little kids, we could not identify how perfectionism is a brain effect. Perfectionists are always looking for ways to improve, extremely…
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Love Is Never a Waste
Love is handing someone a gun pointed at your heart with the trust they won’t set it off. It can teach us how to grow…
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Meet VALLEY’s Fall 2024 Fashion Section Opener: Isa Middleton
Isa Middleton is out of this world. Matching the energy of a Bratz doll, she sits in a Y2K punk ensemble. Her arms are wrapped…
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Don’t Know What You Got (Until It’s Gone)
An unfortunate and harsh reality of life is that we never seem to realize what we have until it is taken away from us. This…
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Choose Love That Chooses You
When our feelings get involved, we tend to focus on ourselves. We have blinders on focusing on what we feel towards them, how attached we…
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Feeling Inexperienced in an Experienced World
The feeling of falling behind: a universal experience. Everyone has an aspect of their life that they’re insecure about, something that they are ashamed to…
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Aware & Aggravated
In our hearts, we trust. But how much of our emotions and behavior can we really trust? Social media personality and influencer Leo Skepi is…
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The Less I Know The Better
To know or not to know, that is the question to be asking yourself. William Shakespeare may have proposed the question first, but what good…
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A Love Letter to Your Childhood Stuffed Animal
Between, balancing exams, internships, relationships and more, ending your day by crashing into your bed is a given. While lying there, contemplating all the responsibilities…
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Friendship Breakups: The Difficulty of Losing a Close Bond
It’s common to associate heartbreak with relationships ending. The confusion, resentment and grief towards a person you once loved can tear you apart. While romantic…
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The Ex Effect
“Shout out to my ex, you’re really quite the mess!” Don’t worry, you may have heard those famous lines from a popular song produced back…
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Balancing Act: Navigating Love and Self
As we all navigate the challenges of finding balance as young adults, things inevitably become more complicated when new dynamics and relationships come into play….
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The Firstborn Fray
Have you ever dealt with the suffocating sense of duty that comes with being the firstborn in your family? Maybe you’ve been delegated the task…
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Hot Head: Cooler Heads Will Prevail
Disagreements are full of emotion and in the heat of the moment, anything goes. Arguments in person are one thing, but conflict over text brings…
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The Change Theory
Alexa, play The Longest Wave by Red Hot Chili Peppers. On a day to day basis, we ride the wave of life full of many…
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Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2024 Beauty & Health Section Opener: Lauren Parker
Lauren Parker, a fourth-year public relations and advertising student, shares her passion for fitness and well-being to help others grow not only in strength but…
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