Leave Students Alone

There are normally two very different views of Students. Some people like to think they are reckless, careless individuals who eat, sleep, drink and occasionally roll into uni when they HAVE to. They think they spend all night, every night, downing drinks, taking shots, clubbing and doing God knows what else.

The other view is that uni students should be mature adults studying 24/7 with a stack of books so high they can’t see over it.

In all fairness, these two types of student do exist. However, everyone seems to forget about us in the middle, the ones that study hard but also party when they can, they one who know the meaning of the word balance!

It’s not surprising that people only view students as either swots or drunks seeing ass these are the only two groups who ever get any attention. Just the other day there was a story in the newspaper of 200 drunken Manchester Students trashing a luxury yacht, drinking heavily, smashing bottles, running around naked and horrifying the other 1000 adults and children on board. This is not a great example of most students; also there is a great chance that this story was exaggerated for the media. Seems that exaggeration and misleading pictures are always used to portray students in a bad light.

On the night of our results in 2010, we were all at Box and our head boy was sitting outside  eating food with a friend, someone took a picture of this and it was on the front page of a newspaper the next day, claiming they were ‘blocked’. Funny when they were perfectly fine…I’m sure there were plenty of people in the club who were drunk but it is unfair that everyone is made out to be like this.

Not all students spend their lives getting drunk and creating chaos, there are even rumours of the government chainging the drinking age to 21 in my eyes that will not work. The level of underage drinkers will just soar sky high and we will have more people wanting to rebel against the system. Most studentsare well behaved and mature, people just like to create something out of nothing in aid of gossip.

Not all students are mental, very few of them are, theres no need to judge them. Just leave them alone...

Leanne x