#unilife #yolo #student #... oh wait it isn't actually that funny.

I just cannot understand or tolerate the way people treat and talk about students like crap. We have such a bad rep - and for what?! Paying £9000 a year to the Government? Getting drunk and being loud like most of the people in Britain do? Is it because we're young? Is it because we talk fast? Is it because we have overdrafts? Is it because we talk to loud on the bus? WHAT IS IT PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME SOMEONE.

Estate agents knocked on our door today announcing that they were here for a viewing without any prior warning (bearing in mind they are supposed to give 24 hours notice). We let them in because we are nice, polite people. Due to the fact that they haven't given us any warning some of the house hadn't had chance to lock/tidy their rooms. The estate agents and the random strangers start obviously looking around the house and going into peoples rooms, that were empty, without their permission. 

I politely said, "Can you please not go into empty rooms without people's permission". 

One estate agent turned to me and replied, pretty curtly, "Actually we are allowed, it's part of the house viewing process"

Probably seeing the look of complete and utter shock on my face, the other estate person starts spewing out some bullshit about why they're allowed to go into people's private spaces without any permission or prior warning.

I didn't listen. All I could think was; yes, it's very nice that you are allowed "by law" to go into people's rooms without their consent but I am asking you, as another human being, to just respect people's privacy. You can look at the rooms of the three people in the house who are actually here (which is plenty right?!). Needless to say they went into all the empty rooms anyway, random strangers looking at our stuff - seeing our little spaces where we are truly ourselves, probably making judgments.

If it had been an "adult" i.e. someone over the age of say... 21 who wasn't a student, I'm pretty sure she would've said "Ok that's fine, if you're asking us not to invade peoples personal space without their permission, that's ok". Suddenly because we're students it's like HEY YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING SO WE'LL JUST DO WHAT WE WANT AND TREAT YOU STUDENTS LIKE IDIOTS. Yip-fucking-pee.