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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…

Fashion

Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2025: The Recap

By Aylin Avci

The Victoria’s Secret 2025 Fashion Show bounces back with the big blowouts and unique angel wings that we have all been waiting for! On Oct….

Entertainment

Stranger Things in its Finality

By Sofia Wagner

Netflix’s most iconic show is about to release its fifth and final season. Following its initial release in the summer of 2016, “Stranger Things” has…

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…

Self-Improvement

Codependency: Put Yourself First For Once

By Aylin Avci

Relying on your friends or romantic partners to be responsible for your happiness is not having emotional support; it’s something called codependency. Codependency is when…

Fashion

Signing Record Labels to Fashion Labels

By Mariana Puerta

Maison Christian Louboutin has signed Jaden Smith as the luxury brand’s first men’s creative director. As a 27-year-old rapper and actor, Smith is not the…

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

The New Comedy Scene: TikTok

By Isabella Mikelonis

In recent years, TikTok has shifted away from being a dance focused app into a platform for emerging artists — comedians especially — to make…

Campus Culture

Soft Space

By Nishita Bhanushali

A new wellness series has hit Penn State with full force: Soft Space. The program, whose reach stretches beyond just the sessions, emphasizes the necessity…

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…