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    Make College Count: A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning
    Make College Count: A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning
    Make College Count: A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning
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    Make College Count: A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning

    By Derek Melleby

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    There's more to college than classes, credits, and a nonstop social life. It's more than getting a degree to improve one's job prospects. College is a time where students develop into the adults they will be for the rest of their lives, a time to explore the big questions about life and human destiny, a time when they form their character and faith.
    The perfect gift for high school graduation, Make College Count helps students make the most of their time in college. It encourages young people to ask important questions of themselves, such as


    Why are you going to college?
    What kind of person do you want to be?
    How do you want your life to influence others?
    With whom will you surround yourself?
    What do you believe?
    and more
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781441214577
    Make College Count: A Faithful Guide to Life and Learning
    Author

    Derek Melleby

    Derek Melleby is the executive director of the OneLife Institute, a ministry that provides students gap year programs focused on discipleship, travel, and service. Prior to joining OneLife, he was on staff with the Coalition for Christian Outreach and the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding. Melleby is also the coauthor of Learning for the Love of God: A Student's Guide to Academic Faithfulness.

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      There was snow on the ground, the sun was shining, and I was on my way back to my dorm room after class. Someone was screaming and running around a tree. As I approached, I noticed that this person wasn’t wearing shoes or a shirt. He was focused and angry. Curious, and a bit scared, I asked, What are you doing? (Remember, this book is about learning to ask good questions. Not too shabby, huh?) If being shoeless and shirtless in the middle of winter wasn’t enough evidence, the slurred speech and smell of his breath sealed the deal. He had been drinking. He whispered his answer to my question: I’m trying to kill a squirrel. In order to kill a squirrel, you have to become a squirrel. Interesting. You learn something new every day![1]

      Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

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      This story has stuck with me because of how normal it was at the time. I had a conversation with a half-naked squirrel hunter and then grabbed dinner. A nineteen-year-old man was simply spending his Thursday afternoon drinking beer and trying to kill a squirrel with his bare hands. No one seemed to think that this was abnormal activity. He was being a college student, doing what college students do. The justification goes something like this: College is a time for you to have fun. Before you graduate to the real world, make sure you have as much fun as you possibly can. Try not to cause too much damage (squirrels excluded), and don’t get arrested—especially if you’re an education major. Nobody hires a teacher with a record. Popular movies about campus life often reinforce these behaviors by making it almost impossible to imagine college in any other

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