Christian with Cranky King at Universal Epic Universe.
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Aidan Christian is a senior theology major with minors in Greek and classical education. He is from Atlanta, Georgia, and is involved with Theta Epsilon music fraternity, Theta Alpha Kappa theology honorary, and the Tower Players. He works in the Admissions Office as a data assistant and is the lead singer in the student band Jett Cruz and the Bahama Mamas. He is also a vice president of the Casablanca Exec Board. 

What’s the best thing about being a theology major?

Doing the hardest thing all the time. There’s only one thing that’s impossible for humans to know, and my whole job is to try my best to know about that one thing. Our minds can’t encapsulate God, and the whole job of someone who does theology is to try and understand God. There’s a framework for answers, but there’s infinite space for more answers and more things we can know about God.

What’s your advice for guys who are afraid to ask a girl out?

Your feelings shouldn’t make you uncomfortable. If you feel like you love somebody, know that there’s nobody out there that doesn’t want someone to feel that way about them. Even if they don’t want you to feel that way about them, it’s not embarrassing to feel that way, because to give yourself to somebody else every day in love and charity is honor. Just be honest with yourself and be honest with them — it’s not going to go your way most of the time, in my experience, but when it does, it’ll be really special. 

Have you ever been involved in dorm prank wars?

Oh yeah, when I was a freshman, we had a bunch of pumpkins from Halloween still in Galloway Residence, so we took some of them, loaded them into my car, and drove to the front of Simpson. We started throwing pumpkins at their door, and they were rotting, so they splatted everywhere. But in the process of doing so, when the guy in the passenger seat (whom I will not name) rolled down the window, it was so cold the window shattered. So not only did we get pumpkin guts everywhere, but also we had to replace my window, which was not a cheap endeavor — but cars never are. 

What’s something fun you’d like to do before you graduate?

Perform in CHP. It’s been a dream since I was a freshman, and I’ve fallen just short every year. This year, I have faith in my bandmates and just enough self-confidence to hopefully get there. I think we’re not half bad this year.

What’s your favorite place to study?

My bedroom. I don’t really do any work or anything outside of there. I like to be enclosed by four walls with nobody else in the room, and the clutter helps me think. It’s comfortable, it’s familiar — at this point, it’s been four years, and I think I’ve probably only ever done my homework or studying outside of my bedroom during finals week, because then you have to have other people study with you.

What advice would you give your freshman self?

You can’t be scared to trust people. Given my past, I have every right to feel wary about trusting people, but you can’t build true friendships or true relationships without trust. You shouldn’t be scared to bear yourself honestly to others, even strangers. Just like asking someone out, if you trust somebody and they burn you, you shouldn’t be dismayed but take that as a sign that you are building virtue, because trust is a virtue. Keep your head high about it, and keep walking in the path of trust, because that’s so important to living the rest of your life as an adult.

Where’d you get your pope costume?

Halloween is really crazy at my high school — people reserve slots in the hallways to put on sets and shows and stuff like that. I wanted to be equally crazy, so I bought a pope costume. I got a really ornate Bible, and I got a really fancy rosary made of metals and fake diamonds and stuff, and I walked around campus. It was before I was a professing Christian, so I sort of did it to make fun of Catholicism, but I walked around campus and sprayed water on people from a little makeup sprayer. It’s kind of a shameful story, but now I wear it to be a mascot for the Catholic soccer team.

Would you rather sit by a fireplace or sit by the pool?

This is an easy one — fireplace all the way. I may be a Georgia boy, but I’m not one for the heat. I’m a bigger guy, and it takes a little bit of cold weather for me to walk around without getting a chafe, so I like being in the cold. It’s like my natural environment as a husky man, and by the fireplace is nice and comforting.