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Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and Get Ready for the Real World!

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Product Description Going to college can be exciting, anxiety inducing, and expensive! You want your child to get the most out of their college experience--what advice do you give? Thriving at College by Alex Chediak is the perfect gift for a college student or a soon-to-be college student. Filled with wisdom and practical advice from a seasoned college professor and student mentor, Thriving at College covers the ten most common mistakes that college students make--and how to avoid them! Alex leaves no stone unturned--he discusses everything from choosing a major and discerning one's vocation to balancing academics and fun, from cultivating relationships with peers and professors to helping students figure out what to do with their summers. Most importantly, this book will help students not only keep their faith but build a vibrant faith and become the person God created them to be. In a nutshell, Thriving at College is about how college students can launch into responsible, fruitful adulthood for the glory of God against the backdrop of a young adult culture that often values perpetual adolescence and the avoidance of responsibility. It explores topics such as embracing responsibility, loving God with all your mind, growing in character and maturity, striving for academic excellence, balancing work and recreation, finding your calling, establishing godly friendships, handling the transition from high school to college, time management, financial discipline, and honoring parents while pursuing functional/economic independence. Review "There is no better guide to college than this." Alex and Brett Harris, best-selling authors of Do Hard Things "Alex has written an insightful and useful book to help college-bound people know what to expect, how to prepare for it, and what to do to avoid the pitfalls." Randy Alcorn, best-selling author of Heaven "Written by an 'insider'--a former student, now a professor, this book addresses all the issues a student might face. An excellent gift for all high school seniors." Jerry Bridges, best-selling author of The Pursuit of Holiness Review Alex’s goal is to spare college-bound young people from entering college thoughtlessly and then drifting after they are there. The book has all the right ingredients to meet that goal. -- Dr. Leland Ryken, professor at Wheaton College From the Author College is this glorious, crucially significant "in between" stage. You're on the threshold of adulthood. Most enter college under their parents' care and financial support. But if it's done right, they'll graduate as men and women ready to assume an adult role in an interdependent society and as a functional, contributing member of a local church. In short, college should be a launching pad into all that goes with Christian adulthood. Yet for some it's a time when they abandon the Christian faith, never to return, giving evidence that they never really belonged to Christ (I John 1:19).  For others, their faith remains intact, but college is a somewhat frivolous season of entertainment, recreation, and amusement--an expensive vacation funded by Mom, Dad, and student loans.  And many learn to privatize their Christian faith, worshiping God on Sunday but never seeing their academic life as an expression of their devotion to God.    I was particularly prompted to write this book by the widespread phenomenon of delayed adolescence - young adults failing to launch. A third of all 22-34 year old men are still living with their parents. Many college students have an entitlement mentality, as if a high GPA, a summer job, money, and success are all supposed to come easily (like the trophy in Little League they got for showing up).  There's an inflated sense of self-worth, a sense of personal greatness not grounded in actual accomplishments.  Thankfully, that doesn't describe all young adults or college students, but the trend is sufficiently common in our day that many commentators, Christia