Bryan College Triangle

Triangle photo by Staff Photographer Maddie K. Doucet

by Britney Weber
Senior Staff Writer

My boyfriend broke up with me 2 years ago for a skinnier girl. I’ve struggled with anorexia ever since.

-Anonymous Post Secret from Frank Warren’s website postsecretarchive.com.

It started out last semester as a project for their Social Psychology class. Students were asked to created a slide show containing secrets from Frank Warren’s PostSecret website.

According to Warren’s website, PostSecret.com is a web-based “gallery of postcard-sized images posted anonymously to unveil a secret.” In other words, as Warren says on his site, these postcards are “shared confessions in art form.”

Sometimes I wonder if I have a mental illness. I don’t want to tell anyone because I’m scared my fears will be confirmed. So I don’t tell people what is going on in my head and just pretend to be as normal as I possibly can.

Now, seniors John Wang and Erica Smith and juniors Lauren Pratt and Rachel Hewitt have decided to take last semester’s project even further with their Research and Design project: Masked No More.

I often wonder if life is easier for other people, or if they are just better at faking it.

Smith said that they wanted to do a project that was similar to Frank Warren’s PostSecret website to get students talking about the secrets they hold.

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by Ericka Simpson
Staff Writer

LIFE (Living In Freedom Everyday) club meets once a month to go to Rhea County High School for two hours to discuss topics relevant to the students.

Their mission statement is “Exposing lies in the media and replacing them with truth.”.

It originated as an abstinence club, according to senior, co-president Erica Smith. Lately, however, the club has moved away from that topic because the subject can become monotonous. Group leaders discuss numerous topics with the students such as music and media influence in the culture.

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