Undergraduate Corner: For a limited time only...

On this blog, the first and third Tuesday of each month are dedicated to presenting discussion geared toward undergraduate students, in a series called, "Undergraduate Corner."

College is only temporary. This is a big relief, since even the most seasoned student feels dogged by exams and term paper due dates and miscellaneous grade requirements that he read about in the syllabus on the first day but the professor never mentioned them again so he forgot about them. It means that "real life" will, one day, begin.

But the temporariness of college life is also something of a challenge. It means that you only have four five a limited number of years to take advantage of all of the resources available to you. When will you ever again have access to a college library, or to full-length electronic journal articles? When will you ever again be able to to waltz into a laboratory and experiment with the equipment? When will you ever again be able to sit down over coffee with the most studied minds in the world? When will you ever again be encouraged to pursue the connections between the different fields of study? Most importantly, when will you ever again have the free time to investigate the questions of the universe, and receive credit in return?


Don't waste your learning. Don't let your college years pass by without digging into the questions that raise your curiosity. Don't miss the opportunity to network with other interested individuals. Don't turn down the chance to develop novel answers in your field of interest and impact your corner of the academic world for Christ. And don't let these years pass by without contemplating how all these pursuits ultimately point you to the glorious God who holds all the answers and loves to see us ask, seek, and knock for them.

"Doubly Marginalized" returns on Thursday. Many thanks to the Emerging Scholars Blog for listing it in last week's Week in Review!