College: Thrive, or (Merely) Survive

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As the school year ends, another graduating class looks to the next step in education. So, the crew turns to Alex Chediak, who teaches engineering and physics at California Baptist University.The multi-talented Alex is also an outstanding writer. He’s the author of Thriving at College, and the team wants to know about his observations—both as a student, and now as a professor—on issues young adults face as they leave home to take on college…and life.How can parents help prepare their children for the new freedoms they’re about to experience? What kind of school is a good fit: Christian or secular? Alex provides satisfying answers for students seeking to glorify God, wherever they’re planted.Show NotesLearn more about Alex Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and Get Ready for the Real WorldBeating the College Debt TrapPreparing Your Teens for CollegeThanks to Tyndale House Publishers, we’re giving away copies of Alex’s book Thriving at College. Sign up for the opportunity to win one!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Berg.
0:26.4	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:31.4	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:33.4	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:45.4	This is Amy Bird, and today I'm here with my usual co-host, Todd Pruitt and Carl Truman, but we are delighted to introduce Alex Chediak. He is professor of engineering and physics
0:57.5	at California Baptist University. He's a husband. He's a father. He's the author of beating the
1:04.5	college debt trap, preparing your teens for college, which is more for parents to read, and then
1:10.7	thriving at college, which is more for parents to read, and then thriving at college,
1:12.1	which is more for college students to read or high school students to read. And I'm so excited
1:18.3	to have you on today, Alex. How are you doing? Great. Thanks so much for having me.
1:23.2	Yeah. So how does a professor of engineering and physics start writing books about relationships, life skills, you know, and adulting?
1:32.3	Yeah, yeah, you know, it was a long process.
1:34.3	I guess I started teaching in 2007, no, 2005. I began part-time in 2005 and then more full-time 2006.
1:43.3	But as I was looking at my students and thinking about
1:45.3	my own days, I loved being a student and loved everything about the college experience and made
1:50.0	some mistakes, did some things well by God's grace. But when I started teaching, I saw thinking
1:55.5	differently about the experience and seeing how my students were prepared or not prepared,
2:00.4	seeing the late adolescence up front,
2:02.7	seeing the consequences that it was having on students, also recognizing how much more was at
2:07.5	state than there used to be, it seems.
2:09.7	Basically, in the last 30 years, more people have been going to college never before.
2:13.6	College is more expensive than ever before.
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