A few weeks ago, I noticed a video circling my Facebook homepage entitled, "The Problem With Millennials." I narrowed my eyes and decided to scroll past, thinking that it wasn't worth watching - I would just get mad and it would ruin my day. I saw the video on my Facebook page a few more times and decided to watch it, just to see if the narrator had anything valuable to say. It is linked below.

I recently graduated college, with a bachelor's degree in musical theatre performance and arts administration. I was involved in a sorority. I had a part-time job for a year during college, was in multiple choirs and theatre productions, and did volunteer work. I maintained friendships and relationships with classmates and professors. I now have an internship at one of the most prestigious theaters in the country. Countless friends of mine who are graduated from college have internships or jobs in their field, and live just like me, with lives that are planned down to the last second.

And you have the nerve to call me and my generation lazy and entitled?

I would like her or anyone else who hates on millennials to witness the days where I left my apartment at 7:30 AM and didn't come home until past midnight. I'd like them to see the nights I stayed up past 3 AM, studying, working on projects, or attempting to wind down from a long and stressful day.

I'd like them to see the friends I have that live in New York City, Arizona, California, Arkansas, and Indiana that I can only connect with via social media. Maybe they'd understand why I check my Facebook and SnapChat so often - that's the only place I see their faces or hear their voices.

I'd like them to see the hours my sorority sisters and I spend volunteering in our community, trying to make our world a better place by picking up trash or serving meals at the Salvation Army. I'd like them to witness being in college theatre productions, where if you aren't onstage during rehearsals or a performance, you're in the green room writing papers and studying for an exam.

I'd like them to see the hours I spent at my part-time retail job, where smiling and being helpful while standing for six hours was a requirement. I'd like them to see the long lines on Thanksgiving evening to get into the store to get some deals - wait a minute, they were the ones standing in line! I'd like them to witness the constant rudeness exhibited towards me by customers, both young and old, especially the old. I'd like them to budget with my pitiful paychecks because the minimum wage has not kept up with inflation over the past 50 years.

I'd like them to see my friends who always say thank you to the bus driver, who hold doors open for people regardless of gender or age, who realize the person in front of them in the Starbucks line is short a dollar and offers them a crumpled up bill. I'd like them to see the loving relationships my friends have with their grandparents and parents, siblings and cousins and the sweet stories they share with me. I'd like them to hear my friends and I dreaming of loving, healthy romantic relationships, unlike the ridiculous garbage we are exposed to on television.

I'd like them to see the walk-in closet in the apartment that I will be living in this summer, because I know I need to save money and subleasing from a friend is financially smarter than getting my own place, since my internship is unpaid and employers prefer to hire adults with 3-5 years of experience than those who are fresh out of college.

I'd like them to hear the conversations my friends and I have about feminism, how women are mistreated and underrepresented in the entertainment industry. When "Blurred Lines" comes on the radio, we cringe and change the station to a song that doesn't make us uncomfortable. When "breaking news" of the latest Kardashian exploit is spread all over Facebook, we roll our eyes, laugh, and click on something else to read.

I'd like them to witness the passionate discussions my friends and I have about the upcoming election: the pros and cons of each candidate, our worries for the future, and the various viewpoints of each political party. I'd like them too see the long line of students waiting early in the morning to vote in the primaries. I'd like them to see my friends who are in ROTC and in the military, who sacrifice their time and lives in order to serve this country, or the respect show by my friends towards veterans and those in active service.

I'd like them to see the way my friends' eyes light up when I call them "BAE," Before Anyone Else, a silly term of endearment meant for significant others but used to make a friend smile. I'd like them to see the adventures that I have with my friends; the late night rehearsals, coffee dates, nights spent in and the nights spent out. I'd like them to see the joy in finding the perfect Instagram filter or a funny Tumblr post shared with my friends.

The world has changed since you were young adults. We are living in a world where it will take years to pay off student loans and buy a house. Being tired and overworked is the norm. We are living in a world where we are told to look a certain way and act a certain way by the adults who create magazines, television shows, movies, theatre, music, etc. and if we don't we are losers who will never be loved. We are living in a world where it is 100% possible for someone our age to not have health insurance, to never actually own their own home, to live in their parents' basement in order to save rent money.

In our world, we are fighting absurd wars in countries we will never see. Adults and children are attacked and shot on the daily all over the United States. The icebergs are melting, species are disappearing, and our forests are chopped down by the minute. The price of an education is sky high and in order to do so, we have to have resumes packed with perfect grades and a thousand extracurricular activities.

I'd like to challenge the narrator of this video as well as other people who are quick to call millennials lazy, entitled, selfish, or ill-mannered. I'd like them to think about the world we are living in and what we must do in order to be successful and happy for our dreams to be fulfilled. We have to scratch and claw and seize every opportunity we have in order to be successful. Every generation has people who are lazy or don't want to work hard, but every generation also has inventors, scholars, artists, and heroes.

We are not what you say you are. We didn't make the world the way it is, but we are the ones that are going to try their damn hardest to fix it.