Plain lazy, opinionated, messy, unhygienic, loud, troublesome, unreliable - (to name just some of the adjectives commonly in discourse with them). Is the english student really deserving of such a bad rap?

Let’s turn to my own experiences. It is true I have heard some real horror stories, students tearing down furniture, walls, or even each other from houses they are commonly letting. Does this mean that the average British landlord has every right to rip us off? Many sight their concerns over the violent seething underbelly that they assume exists in most students, commonly housing the idea that all students are destructive types intent on causing injury to their property. Maybe in some areas of the country such attitudes can be justly validated, but why in areas where students have a proven record of being conscientous, mindful people must they continue to be oppressed by their landlord and letting agent?

The world can take note that the modern student is feeling the oppressive effects of corporate business and private landowners. We are tired of being stereotyped as apathetic and uncaring. The truth is most of us recognise the stresses and strains of owning property, we work hard to keep that property over our heads and we ensure that good care is taken in order to reflect positively on oursleves. England must look after it’s students more carefully and show us some more sympathy. We are helping to build this country and to take it further into the twenty first century, we do not need our elder community’s to foster such resentments toward us.

Source : http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/assets/messy_desk_contest_winner.jpg

In no way do student’s rooms look like they’ve been worked in as much as this.