When we hear the term college what usually comes to our mind is this grand frat party filled with hundreds of drunk college kids jumping off of roofs, taking shots, streaking around and wearing sailor hats. College has been dramatized by the media, television and movies to portray this idea of what college is actually like.

As an incoming freshman, I had this idea of what college was branded into my brain. I thought every day there would be some crazy Project X party to go to every night of the week, and boy was I wrong. People in college, hear me out here, don't actually party every day of the week.

What?! My entire outlook on what college was supposed to be was broken in the first month. Sure, there were parties on the weekends, and sure people occasionally had small get-togethers during the week, but in the slightly changed words of our famous Buckeye, Cardale Jones, "People did come to play school."

This is where I was thrown astray. Well, what do people do with their time? What do you do when you're not in class. People had to be partying, what else would they be doing? Then one day, I saw some chalk telling me to check out this church. "Church in college," I laughed to myself. "They probably play beer pong during service and instead of drinking juice and eating bread they have jungle juice and vodka soaked gummy bears." Boy, was I wrong here again. There are actually Christians in college.

So let me straighten this out for you real quick:

1. College isn't what movies and TV portray.

2. College kids aren't actually party animals. These college kids that the media showed doing keg-stands were actually using their Saturday's to go out into the community and spread God's word.

I decided to get involved. I considered myself a Christian and maybe I'll make some cool friends through it. If not, I can put it on my resume that I was in church during college.

Fast forward two months into my freshman year -- I'm at an all-guys church event called Man-Makers. This event had more than 400 guys packed into a church on a Friday night, from 11 different universities, from all around the Eastern United States. I was sitting next to my two best friends that I made and happened to turn around and look at these guys. Now, the media would say that these college guys should be out taking body shots off of sorority girls and wearing Hawaiian shirts, but no, they were singing their hearts out with their hands towards the sky, praising God.

Fast forward another two months, I'm in the Atlantic ocean during spring break with my small group leader. I'm standing there getting ready to be baptized with 44 other Christians from the Ohio State campus cheering me on. They weren't cheering me on because I just hit a redemption shot in beer-pong. They weren't cheering me on because I got some drunk girl to flash me during a rave on the beach in Miami. No, they were cheering because I was surrendering my life to Jesus and declaring him my savior. On that trip, I met a girl -- a girl that I'm currently starting a Christian relationship with. Not a relationship based on how much sex we could have, or how many parties we could hit on the weekends, but a relationship based on Jesus Christ.

See, it's funny if you think about it. The media makes college seem like this big party. And in a sense they are right. College is a big party, a big celebration. And that party is us celebrating Jesus and building community together. So, when you watch a movie and see some huge, outrageous party know this; most of those kids are actually at home in their dorms cramming for a midterm in chemistry on Monday and getting ready to go to bed because church is in the morning.

College isn't a place where Christianity is vacant and parties are rampant. Actually, it's completely the opposite. College is a place where God runs through all of our hearts, drawing us all together one way or another. I promise you being a Christian in college is a lot easier than finding that Project X party.