By Rachel Zarrell

Throughout life, people sometimes fall into occupations they never envisioned. But few careers compare to Frank Warren’s job.

In a packed Curry Student Center ballroom Monday evening, Warren stood atop the stage and told the room about his one-of-a-kind profession.

“My name is Frank,” he said. “And I collect secrets.”

For Warren, what started as a community art project soon exploded into the PostSecret phenomenon, in which people from around the world mail him secrets on postcards.

Every Sunday, Warren posts about 20 secrets on his blog, postsecret.blogspot.com, and in the past three years he has released four PostSecret books: “Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives,” “My Secret,” “The Secret Lives of Men and Women” and “A Lifetime of Secrets.”

To the roughly 350 people at the event, Warren, whose visit was hosted by the Resident Student Association and the Council for University Programs, preached a new kind of gospel: one of friendship, connection and coming to terms with your secrets.

“Every day, each of us makes a decision to hide our secrets [in a box]