I have wonderful memories of college, but few of them involve the readings or the tests. I have great memories of one older English professor who would puff on his pipe in his office and tell me about his days as a young man in the U.S. Forestry Service as a fire-spotter in the West. He wasn't my official advisor, but he gave me a lot more direction than my advisor every did about what I should be doing in my writing education. I spent a lot of hours with this man, because with him, I heard the words along the way, words of encouragement and direction and comfort. I heard them at graduation, too, but when I really needed them was when I was overwhelmed in the second year, not just at the end.
Christians have a lot of words to draw on, words and rituals that make for a rich life.
Some Christians traditions push the university out of life. University accreditation is a necessary evil, but real life is found outside the university, apart from academic life. Lutherans have a different take on the Christian life. We hope that the Word of God and your faith is going to meet and mingle with all the words that you're taking in in university life. We hope that your knowledge of God's Word is going to interact with and enrich everything else that you encounter, and vice- versa, that your university education is going to increase your understanding and appreciation of the Gospel.