This might look like your typical Penn State student, but she’s hiding a huge secret from everyone. Millennia is actually the famous SoundCloud rapper, Lil Mill. She’s from Long Island, New York, and travelled a long way to be here at State. Now, you may be wondering how she affords her tuition here, and the answer is her famous rapping skills. 

SoundCloud rappers have been gaining more and more leverage as the years go by, and Millennia definitely falls in with that bunch. She posts anonymously under the name “Lil Mill” and never EVER posts her face. She doesn’t want her identity to be known to the world, at least not yet. She loves music, the money, and just being able to be creative, but she’s scared of what comes with fame. She doesn’t want constant hate from people everywhere, it’s not good for a girl in college especially.

She decided that she has enough on her plate right now and doesn’t need to deal with the fame that would come with revealing her identity. Now, you may be wondering, how does one make it as far as her? How do you actually get fame from being on SoundCloud? Well, for Lil Mill, it was pretty easy. She decided to get on her grind and start by producing some beats she liked in her at home studio. After she produced some sick beats, she began writing some lyrics and just let it all flow. Lil Mill wrote about things she really cared about, while also staying super relatable, and keeping a tight rhythm that appeals to the masses.

SoundCloud is how a lot of rappers find their way up the music chain. It’s a new way for people to stay connected and find some new music. Creating a song, even just for SoundCloud is a lot of time, hard work, and effort. It shocks the few people Lil Mill told  with the amount of work that is needed to be successful. Many people just take it as a joke when they first hear it. Lil Mill isn’t here for music either, she’s here for Hospitality Management. Her major having nothing to do with music is also something that is confusing for many of her friends.

Lil Mill knows that she loves music, but that she also loves management. Management will also be the better breadwinner for her future life. She wants to pursue the better career to ensure she can be exactly where she wants to in her future. She is on her constant grind of music and management throughout her schooling so far. When she went home as well, she also created more beats and lyrics to maintain her anonymous fame. SoundCloud is one of those things you just have to keep up on in order to stay relevant. Lil Mill posts at least once a month at the least, and usually tries to make it weekly to maintain relevancy.

Overall, keeping this secret is difficult throughout college, but she is managing well so far. Working hard in music and school has its challenges, but it seems to be paying off for Lil Mill so far. Being a rapper is hard work, but it’s what she loves doing, so it’s very much worth it for her. The grind never stops in a day in the life of Lil Mill.

This is Nate. Nate looks just like your typical D1 athlete, right? A typical college student just here to study and get his work done. Well, you’d be slightly wrong. Yes, he is a hard working, D1 athlete, college student, BUT he’s also a professional rugby player. Now, you may be thinking, how does he manage that with college? To be honest, it’s pretty hard.

He plays for the Irish national team, which is pretty prestigious. He has practice every day for Penn State, and recorded one on one practices for the Irish team. Not to mention all of the actual coursework he spends time on as well. Not to mention he’s also out of state, which means keeping your grades up is extra important.

He loved Penn State so much that he decided it was worth the extreme time commitment of being a student athlete and a professional athlete. Balancing friends, school, rugby, and a relationship is becoming increasingly hard for Nate. Workouts are intense and leave him exhausted, as does homework. It is hard enough to be a college student, let alone a professional or student athlete.

At the last Penn State rugby practice he had to go to, they did practice drills, including lots of tackling, and his toe got cleated so hard that his toenail is now completely black. Now, this is extremely disgusting, but it shows how physically demanding rugby tends to be. Rugby is one of the roughest sports you can play honestly.

Rugby is a combination of soccer and football, but without any padding. The rules are quite difficult to master, but as a player you have to. Watching a rugby match is one of the most confusing things on the planet, but it’s very entertaining. You have to remember every single play there could be as a student and professional athlete in this game. It’s very mentally and physically demanding.

Being a professional athlete sounds fun until you realize everything that goes into being one. There literally is not a day that goes by where Nate doesn’t do something at least related to rugby. Even with the upcoming break, he has things planned every day that has to do with rugby, including traveling to Ireland to play for his team. It has become a second nature type of thing within his life.

His family and friends especially know that his schedule is just so demanding, that he runs out of time a lot. Nobody other than his team really know about his professional athlete life, though. It is hard for him to explain to most people why he is always so busy, because nobody can really get it unless they’re also in his position. Every day he experiences a struggle that most other college kids don’t.

It becomes extremely difficult for him to balance everything, especially when he has to travel so much. He has to travel with his Irish team and his Penn State team. He’s from out of state so his family seeing him is also extremely difficult at times. He knew it would be difficult, and he’s slowly working through the intensity of his daily regiments. Overall though, Nate wouldn’t have his life any other way, he gets to be at the school he loves, while playing the sport he loves so dearly.

This is Julia, as some of you may already know. Julia seems like just a regular college student to most, but she’s hiding a very big secret from everyone. She’s royalty back in her home country of Brazil. Now, why is she here you may ask? Julia is in the witness protection from assassins in her country.

She came here to the U.S. many years ago in hopes of escaping her fate of death. She is being targeted by a group of anti-governmental Brazilian spies. These people have one mission and one mission only, find the Queen and kill her. They are so against her because her views for the country are far more liberal than theirs.

Being royalty, Julia is very used to always having a target on her back. She always stayed more in the background, though. Until her parents announced she was set to be the Queen very soon, she had been nothing more than the quiet, dutiful daughter behind the King and Queen. She created her own views that were similar, but more newly generational than her parents. Most citizens were very accepting of her views, but others, such as this spy group, were not.

Julia was never one to let other peoples words effect her, she grew a thick skin while being a Princess. She never wanted to leave her beloved country due to somebody else. She was very determined to stay no matter what these people did, but it just became too dangerous. Julia couldn’t even leave her house most days. The spies also tried to steal her mother and marry her off a few times, and the fear was this would be executed on Julia as well. Her parents wanted more for her, so they did what they had to do, and contacted the United States government for help.

They called and asked if they could enroll Julia in the Witness Protection Program for Princesses. The government agreed, and the next day, Julia was enrolled at Penn State as an international student. Nobody second guessed her standing, so she just went with it. Luckily, she learned English many years ago, and she fit right in. Nobody even suspected she wasn’t from the United States.

Not much had changed from her look, except she cut her hair shorter. She didn’t have too big of a problem with this, as she knew it was for her safety. Her roommate was also an assigned body guard to her that is also enrolled here. The Witness Protection Program checks in on her frequently, and campus staff are aware of how careful they must be. It was assumed that since this is such a big campus, she would easily blend in and not be suspected.

This has proven to be true, she’s just a normal college student now, and she likes it very much. Being normal is a breath of fresh air for this Princess. She works, goes to classes, and then just chills in her free time. She has no country to constantly worry about, or assassins, she just gets to live a normal life for awhile. It is unknown on when Julia will actually be able to safely return to her country, but she does know that she is okay with spending her next four years here at Penn State.

This is Madi, and as you can probably tell by looking at her, she’s a model. She’s not just any kind of model though, she’s the most coveted kind of model, otherwise known as an Instagram model. As an Instagram model, Madi gets recognized frequently on camps, which is weird for her. Now, just because she’s a model doesn’t mean she doesn’t get stood up like any regular person. As seen in this picture, Madi is alone in the commons, but it wasn’t supposed to be like that.

Madi was supposed to meet up with an entire group of friends, including a boy she liked, but this didn’t go as planned. Her friends had just kind of ghosted her that night, and later claimed that they were attacked by a werewolf on their way to meet her. Being Halloween time, Madi decided to give her friends the benefit of the doubt, but she still wanted proof.

She knew that werewolves did exist. How you may ask? Well, she actually is one. The Instagram model status is just a coverup for the secret that is her double life. Madi knew that if her secret ever got out, it would be extremely detrimental to not only her, but also to her entire pack.

The werewolf curse is one that runs deep within Madi’s family, there isn’t one generation in which it has skipped. Mostly everyone in her hometown is a werewolf, or knows about them, so keeping it a secret isn’t a very familiar thing for Madi. She got extremely excited when she heard that there may actually be someone to share her secrets with. Now, she just had to find them.

The possibility that her friends were lying to her was a very great chance, but Madi so desperately wanted to find someone like here at this huge campus. She was determined to find out the truth behind this incident. She went to her closest friend in the group and asked what specifically had happened, and her friend was very candid about the situation. They were out walking when they heard a rustle in the bushes, a slight growl, and then something run across the road.

Being a werewolf herself, this all sounded very familiar to Madi. She knew that this description could actually really be a true werewolf in State College. The friend she was speaking to actually did seem pretty terrified of what had occurred. Madi then asked if anyone had gotten hurt from the creature, and the friend responded with another story about how the boy Madi had a crush on got scratched by whatever the creature was. Immediately, she knew this was bad, that this was actually real, and now the boy she likes will actually turn into what she is.

This thought excited yet terrified Madi. She knew how dangerous a new werewolf could be, and also if the older wolf was out scratching people, that added an entire new element of danger to her life. This is increasingly more dangerous for her secret as well, because once one person finds out, everyone will because gossip spreads like wildfire. Madi was determined to get to the bottom of what is going on in State College. She knew she needed to find out who is behind this occurrence.

Everyone else may think she’s just an Instagram model, but Madi is a werewolf turned detective due to these new revelations within her life. In order to protect her and her family, she knows exactly what she has to do. She had to find the culprit and have a nice long chat with them about what they think they’re doing. Overall, Madi is starting a new journey of not only being an instagram model, a werewolf, and a college freshman, but also a detective for the spooky world of State College.

Take one look at Austin and what do you think? Tall, skinny, kind of nerdy…right? Well, your observations would be correct! Austin is actually a chemist here at Penn State, and he tends to experiment a lot, especially in his dorm. Now, this doesn’t sound very safe at all does it? The answer to that question is a hard no. This story is about a genius who did a not so genius thing once upon a time.

We all know Freshman have to live in the dorms, no if, ands, or buts about it. Now, which dorm you get is basically luck of the draw. Unluckily, he got one of the unrenovated dorms called Sproul Hall. This dorm is getting torn down this year so nobody really cares about it anymore. No Air Conditioning, old wood, gross carpets, minimal laundry, and no kitchens are some of the feats of the great Sproul Hall.

Another thing that tends not to work properly are the smoke detectors. This was to Austin’s avail because he had tendency to mix chemicals within the walls of his dorm room to see what happens. This sounds extremely dangerous, and it was, but he didn’t really care too much. It was fun and peaked his interest, so he just went with it.

He started off simple with coke and mentos, but it quickly escalated. He had started to do bigger experiments to get bigger results. Austin had not expected any of this to backfire on him for some reason. Sometimes, smart people do dumb things, and this was a case of that. He was not expecting to have major repercussions for any of his actions.

Austin was experimenting with very explosive chemicals one day, and what happened next was completely unexpected. He mixed them and instantly they had exploded, he wasn’t too concerned because he does this plenty of times. He just cleaned it up using paper towels and threw them all in the trash, no big deal to him.

He then went to bed for the night, with his roommate already sleeping peacefully less than five feet away. Throughout the night, something weird happened, Austin woke up to the smell of smoke. The entire trash can had somehow set on fire! He wasn’t very sure about how this happened, but he just tried to quickly and quietly extinguish the fire.

Austin’s work was to no avail, the fire ended up spreading to his desk and that’s when he realized he really messed up this time. Before he knew it, the fire alarm started going off at three o’clock in the morning! He could hear many loud groans from around his floor, but he was panicking too much to care. He just started a dorm fire! What was he going to do?

Austin’s roommate quickly woke up, and screamed some profanities once he saw the fire. They both decided it was best to run out of the room and join their floor outside in front of the Commons. Austin quickly found his RA and told her that the fire started in his room, but he wasn’t quite sure how. The RA thanked him for being honest and informed the firefighters as soon as they arrived.

Everybody gathered around Sproul Hall was visibly angry, their home was slowly burning down. The entire building just wanted to sleep, not watch it burn. Luckily, the firefighters managed to put out the fire before it became too unmanageable. Needless to say, Austin was now known as the Sproul fire started, and nicknames can tend to stick around.

Austin had definitely learned his lesson from this little accident, and chances are this will never happen again. Burning your own dorm down really isn’t very fun at all. He will never again play with chemicals within his home, which is definitely a good thing. They say things happen for a reason, and you could say this little incident definitely had an effect on the poor Freshman boy. At the end of the day, Sproul Hall still lives on…somehow.

Tune in next time to hear more fake stories about real people!

Braxton is just your typical outgoing college boy, except he has one huge secret. There was a previous incident with a hypnotist, and he now occasionally believes that he is a flying superhero. This occurs every time he hears the seemingly meaningless word, “meatball.” This is a very weird word choice, and surprisingly enough this word isn’t heard by him too often. Once the word meatball is spoken though, it’s game over for good ol’ Braxton

Now, I know this sounds weird, but I’m simply just reciting what I’ve heard. Braxton actually does become a weird kind of superhero once the word “meatball” is uttered, this boy just starts flying around the room! Nobody ever has any idea on what to do with him to be honest. Bystanders just have no choice but to let it happen. Personally, I’m convinced he just has a constant harness and string, like in theaters, rigged up at all times.

The first time it happened while his friends were together, people were talking about subs, yes subs, not hoagies. Somehow the topic of favorite subs came up, and Braxton’s best friend said she loved meatball subs, and off he went. This was the first time he had done this around his Penn State friends, and nobody knew quite how to react. One second, Braxton was just sitting and engaging in the conversation, and the next minute, he was flying around the room like a crazy person!

His friends, having never seen this before, flipped out and began running and screaming. They had no idea how they were going to get him to come down! They tried grabbing Braxton and manually pulling him down, but he just dragged them along with him. His friends really got scared at this point, they had even less of an idea of what to do to help him. They had no idea if he was in pain or if he would ever stop or be okay.

It became increasingly more terrifying because Braxton was heading towards the door! One of his friends had to run over and close the door to ensure he didn’t escape into the building and scare more of the residents. If he would’ve gotten out, who knows what would have happened to the poor kid. His friends realized that clearly he wasn’t in control in this moment. This incident had been going on for close to half an hour at this point, and everybody was running out of hope.

Braxton’s friends were trying to figure out what triggered this, and decided to go back to their previous conversation to try to figure it out. It turns out, saying the word meatball actually makes the hypnosis stop immediately, much to their surprise. As soon as they uttered the word meatball, Braxton immediately fell to the ground, seemingly unscathed by the events that just happened. He just seemed to be passed out on the floor after his little episode, which only lasted a few minutes.

Eventually, he came to and immediately asked if it had happened again, which obviously, it had. His friends were shocked that this had occurred before. Braxton just blew it off and pretended it was just another day for him, but deep down he became increasingly more worried that these “episodes” would become more frequent. At the end of the day, Braxton is just thankful that he was not seriously injured in the making of this story.

Hey y’all! It’s time for another issue of Real People, Fake Stories! Do you see the girl with the glasses and burrito bowl? You do? Well, thats Jess, and she has a secret she’s hiding. Jess has a pet goat she’s been hiding in her dorm, she’s hiding them because she’s actually a goat whisperer. She’s a girl who can’t live without her goats…I know! Crazy right?

Now you see, Jess is from Florida, a farm in Florida to be exact. One day all of the goats on and around her farm turned into a stampede and ran away, a huge issue for Jess and her family! Her family only somewhat knew about her abilities, but once the goats got out, there was no going back. Jess’s entire family watched as she went up to the goats and sweetly whispered in their ears. You could faintly hear her saying, “Come on baby goats, come back onto the farm please.”

The goats slowly made their way back into the corral, except for one lone, small goat. This goat was Jess’s favorite of them all. She named him Gunther as a baby goat, and the name has stuck ever since. She had to go and coax him back in by himself, which was a difficult thing for her, seeing as he was also the most stubborn of them all. After about another ten minutes, the goat eventually went back into their corral. All was well in the household of Jess for awhile after that.

Many months had passed, and Jess and her family then decided to take the goats on a field trip to DisneyWorld! Not the best idea, but there was a goat parade that week, so they decided to make the journey with a select few of their best goats, including Gunther. It was a few hours worth of a car ride to get there, nothing too awful though. The car ride was fine, no problems other than frequent bathroom breaks. Once they arrived at the park, is when things really started to go downhill for the goat whisperer.

Gunther decided to run away about twenty minutes into their arrival at the park, which had the whole family panicking. They searched the park with the other goats for what felt like hours, when they heard a faint “BAAAA” behind them. Gunther was on top of Space Mountain! Nobody had any idea how he got up there, not even the workers. The poor goat looked frightened half to death, and Jess knew she just had to do something. So Jess went on the loud speaker and let out her loudest goat call yet, it definitely got the attention of the ENTIRE park.

Gunther was so shocked that he instantly climbed down and into Jess’s arms. The family instantly left the park, and didn’t even stay for the goat convention! They were so upset that Gunther would do something like that to them, they all couldn’t believe it! It was in that moment that Jess decided she couldn’t leave Gunther alone when she went to college. Now, smuggling a goat into a dorm is quite hard, but it was well worth it to make sure her best friend would be safe.

Somehow, Jess still hasn’t gotten caught with the goat. She finds it to be a goat miracle. Jess and Gunther are best friends and do pretty much everything together. Wherever Jess is, Gunther follows, they’re practically inseparable. At the end of the day, everybody just wants to have a good best friend who will stick by them.

Well everybody, this is Riley. I know what you’re thinking, and no, she’s not my twin. Riley does have a secret though, she’s an avid ghost hunter. Now, I know how crazy this sounds, but she can really communicate with ghosts! She’s even in the works for her own TV show on Sci-Fi network.

Riley currently lives on the eighth floor of Sproul Hall, the most haunted hall, and floor, of all. Frequently you can hear cats, small children laughing, and babies crying. According to Riley, there are no cats, children, or babies on this floor whatsoever. She knows all of her floor mates and is sure nobody is hiding anything in their dorms, or trying to freak her out. Nobody knows about Riley’s secret, at least that she knows of, so nobody has the chance to try and mess with her.

One night, Riley was just casually up at three in the morning, per usual, doing homework, when she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Her roommate was fast asleep in her bed, so she was sure it wasn’t her. Riley then saw something white forming in the corner of the room, almost as if it was hatching. She turned her attention to it fully and saw that it was a woman, a woman in all white, with light blonde hair, pale skin, and pale blue eyes. The ghost almost looked like the late Marilyn Monroe, but Riley could tell it wasn’t actually her. Her and the ghost woman had a staring contest for a solid 2 minutes before Riley finally whispered, “Can you at least knock next time?” This kind of baffled the ghost woman for a minute, and seemed as if she was coming up with a calculated response. Finally, the ghost responded with, “Do it look like I got hands?”

This wasn’t the answer Riley was necessarily expecting, but the ghost lady disappeared before she could respond. The next ghost she saw a many nights later, but it was almost the exact same situation. Her roommate was on her bed working on homework this time, though. Suddenly a black apparition showed up in the corner of the room, and Riley and her roommate instantly looked up and screamed. This ghost felt a lot angrier, and definitely more on the demonic side compared to the previous ghost. From what Riley could recall, she has never encountered a spirit quite as evil as this one in all her life. Now, you might think the spirit would attack, speak, do anything, but no, it just stood in the corner, quietly staring. The only thing that wasn’t black were its eyes, which were a deep blood red.

This spirit stayed for quite a while longer than the previous one. It had been about an hour since the figure arrived, and suddenly its eyes snapped to link eyes with Rileys roommate. As soon as they made eye contact, the figure meowed, and then disappeared into nothing. It was in that moment that Riley knew something was terribly off about their dorm, and she was determined to not find out what it was due to fear. The evil Riley felt that night was enough for one to feel for a lifetime, and she vowed to ignore all angry ghosts from then on. Once Riley took the attention away from these evil ghosts, they became less frequent, and eventually, stopped coming around altogether.

Riley learned that sometimes the best thing you can do in a situation is to just let it be. She and her roommate just decided to move on with their lives and not acknowledge that night. Though the black shadow will always leave an impression their lives, they somehow know that he will no longer pop up in their room. The tearing down of Sproul Hall next year can almost confirm that the black figure will be destroyed with it. At the end of the day, all is well within the eighth floor of Sproul Hall…for now.

Welcome to my passion blog! This blog will delve into the lives of students here at Penn State…kind of. I’m going to take a picture of somebody, and create a story based off of their picture. It’s like Humans of New York without the interview portion. I will post stories about people I know, and people I don’t know. Stay tuned every week to see what my (mostly) functioning brain comes up with!