I've put a lot of thought into this, and I believe that I have a very effective way to balance both my biblical life and my social life. While yes, I have a very different answer to this question when compared to most because I am planning on becoming a pastor when I get out of College. I also plan on going to a Christian School - Grand Canyon University. The thing is though, I don't think my spiritual walk needs to be separated from my career. Like I said, this is different for me because my spiritual walk needs to be directly tied into preaching, as a good pastor needs to have an extremely strong faith life. Now, my past experiences have had a massive impact upon what I plan on doing with my life post-High School. When I was in 7th grade, I had a sort of pseudo-revelation, and it made me really begin to take my walk with Christ seriously, and I've kept it ever since. Then, my junior year, I went to a youth camp at NAU. At that camp, my chaperone said "If there's something Holy that persists in your mind, it's more than likely that God is putting it there". He then followed it up with a joke about how that doesn't mean to do drugs (because doing drugs isn't holy), but the main part of the message has always stuck with me, because I had previously had the thought that "huh, maybe I could be a pastor", but I've always shot it down because frankly, I was afraid of it. I've always been an introvert, and having to talk to people after service terrifies me, but every time I worry my chaperone's words stay with me. This is something that God wants me to do, and because of that I should do it. That's how my past experiences impact my future goals. The one thing that I want is to be better at sharing God's word. Where I am now, every time I try to teach someone something about Christ, it goes haywire. I don't yet know what I'm doing, but that's why I'm going to college. Through the Christian program at a Christian college surrounded by Christian people, I have nothing but faith that I'll be able to share the word of God to by best ability, and that's all that I really need to be able to do isn't it? It also helps because this is how I'll impact my environment. In what way other than telling people about God can I impact my environment?