College is often seen as the place where people figure out who they truly are. It is seen as a place where people have the time of their lives while being pushed to the limit, but it's not widely recognized as a place that makes you constantly question your beliefs and values.

Without having parents to make us go to church every Sunday, we find ourselves slipping further and further away from whatever religion we align with. There are many clubs and churches for different religions on or close to campus, but it is incredibly time consuming during a point in our lives where we have very little time to begin with.

It starts out by just saying, "Oh I need to catch up on my sleep just this Sunday," or "I have too much homework, it'll be fine if I miss this one FCA meeting," or even "I'm really tired, I don't have the energy to pray tonight, I'll just do it in the morning," and before long you realize it has been a month since you have even opened your bible.

Maintaining the same dedication to your faith while being faced with so many new challenges and situations is incredibly hard, even for the most religious of people. As a college student, I am consistently exposed to so many new things (good and bad) and I don't necessarily accommodate my time to fit God and religion in.

Some people think I'm a bad Christian. I'm a feminist, I support gay marriage and am fairly liberal. However, rather than seeing my religion as the written book of law that should be enforced by my government, I see it as my saving grace. I don't see the bible as a guide of do's and don't's, I see it as comfort and hope in times that I have none.

Christ is there for me through my good times and bad, and He is my hope for the future. I don't see my religion as a way to judge other people or force my beliefs onto them, I see it as a redemption from my past mistakes and forgiveness for my inevitable future ones. I see God as someone that I can depend on to be there for me and love me when it feels like no one else does.

People use religion in order to justify their own actions or to support their discriminations, whether it be in regard to other religions or people of other sexualities. However, I see religion as hope for the future rather than a condemnation of the present.

College is a time of struggle, success and failure whether it be academically, professionally or socially, and that can have a strong influence on a person's faith. We find it easy to blame our religion for times of struggle, but fail to remember it in times of prosperity. I struggle with questions about my religion constantly, but part of religion is faith. No faith is required when we know all of the answers. Faith isn't believing in something that you can see or touch, it is about trusting the things you can't. I can neither see God nor hear Him and that is incredibly difficult for me at times, but no matter what struggles or questions I have encountered, I maintain my faith in Him.