The Daily Telegraph has just published a student poll conducted by Olympus which highlights what students think they should be doing at University.
The list headed ‘Things to do before leaving University’ includes many typical student experiences like getting into arguments with housemates over buying toilet rolls; ringing parents when money is needed; collecting 500 friends on Facebook and spending no more than £10 on a night out.
I could have added a whole list of additional experiences based on my own days as a student. These would include contracting a venereal disease from drunken sex with various strangers; falling asleep on the roof of a parked car; racing across a golf course on mountain bikes and breaking into a zoo to try and steal a penguin.
These are experiences that you can really only have as a student. But student life can be full of dangers. There are many students who actually have vey unhappy or unpleasant times at college or University. Often they are in unfamiliar towns and cities, away from home for the first time where they might find themselves prey to unscrupulous landlords only too happy to take their limited cash.
Students in some of Britains cities have become targets for bullying, abuse and theft. All students, these days, have loads of expensive gadgets like laptops, mobile phones and mp3 players and these are attractive to local criminal gangs. Student life can be a lot of fun, but these days it can also be fraught with danger. Todays students would do well to take classes in self-defence and avoiding confrontation.
Having fun, making friends and enjoying the freedom of being away from mum and dad are all part of what it is to be a student. But the important thing is to stay safe.
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