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 add a number of additional experiences based on my own student years. 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 all typical student experiences. But student life can be full of dangers. Many students don’t have an entirely positive experience at University or college. Often away from home for the first time, in a strange city, they can find themselves ripped off by money grabbing landlords.

Students in many of Britains cities and town are prime targets for muggings and theft. Its well known that students all have mobile phones, laptops and mp3 players and these are very attractive to local criminal gangs who prey on these unsuspecting young students. 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.

Making friends, having fun and a whole load of new experiences are all part of what it is to be a student. But it’s important to stay safe.

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