Penn Staters: Tweet Your Campus Sins Using “PSU Confesses”
Penn State alumni can be a nostalgic bunch, celebrating their alma mater by tailgating at football games, sharing stories at reunions, and even storming trustee meetings! So rarely, however, to they get to relive the debauched State College lives many of them lived. Well, here’s one new way to get your vicarious kicks: “PSU Confesses,” a twitter account through which anonymous students (or anyone, really) can post their deepest, darkest campus secrets. Here are some representative confessions.
“I voluntarily pour beer into my Sperry’s and shoot-the-boot because I like the taste of success”
— PSUConfesses (@PSUConfesses) March 14, 2013
“I pretend I’m a legacy at every frat I go to and get into 90% of them”
— PSUConfesses (@PSUConfesses) March 13, 2013
“I steal my roommate’s food and then blame it on my other roommates”
— PSUConfesses (@PSUConfesses) March 13, 2013
“I fucked three guys in the same frat and I don’t even care!”
— PSUConfesses (@PSUConfesses) March 12, 2013
“Just witnessed a guy looking for a pencil in his backpack while casually pushing aside a pack of tampons”
— PSUConfesses (@PSUConfesses) March 12, 2013
“I hate everyone on campus except for the squirrels”
— PSUConfesses (@PSUConfesses) March 12, 2013
The account, which launched Tuesday, works thusly: You send your message to this website, some enterprising moderator (presumably a Penn State student) decides if it’s worth posting, and presto, you’ve confessed to the world. It’s an interesting inversion on the old confessional model, in which a person familiar to you (your priest) would hear you out in confidence. Now, millions of people could conceivably read your confession without knowing who you are. Perhaps something for Pope Francis I to consider as he attempts to usher his Church into the 21st century.
