My suggestions, rooted in the study of how a Biblical worldview can interact with secular thought, stem from my experience running the academic gamut. From a student in secular universities freshman through Ph.D. to a professor at both secular and Christian colleges, I know how students act and professors think. This doesn t mean that by studying the Bible you know more than your professors about calculus or the Taft Hartley Act, but it does spell out one clear advantage you have in the academic world especially today. Having rejected God over the last two centuries, our intellectual establishment has run up against the dead end Christians predicted they would encounter. Without God, there is no basis for truth, morality, logic or beauty.
Academics don t have a foundation for truth.
The biblical worldview is so much bigger, deeper and more complex than the secularists . Human-made theories tend to latch on to a small detail of reality whether one that debases human beings or one that exalts them past all measure then stretch it to account for all of life. Christians have the big picture human beings are both depraved sinners and bearers of God s image. You have nothing to fear. If, and only if, you have meditated long and hard on God s Word, you know more than your teachers do.