Time and time again, I've heard older adults refer to college students as "kids." These "kids" are in there early 20's or older. They are not kids, they're adults and society needs to start treating them that way. A majority of them have jobs, some of them work full time and even have children of their own.

A lot of them are married and live on their own. I don't know how much they really appreciate being treated like children. Personally, I don't want anyone looking at me and treating me like a child. I'm not a child, I'm an adult. I don't need anyone to coddle me or try to save me from seeing something terrible.

What I would like though, is to be treated as an equal. The more society decides to continue to treat college students as children, then the harder it's going to be for them once they are out in the real world. The real world doesn't have "safe spaces." The real world doesn't care if something offends you. The real world is not always going to accept you. The real world is not always fair.

I know plenty of people my age that will be just fine. However, there are some that I know are in for a rude awakening. Unfortunately, being a millennial is already kind of a laughing stock in today's world. It doesn't help when some college students go around acting like everyone should accommodate to their feelings. No one is going to take us seriously if things like this continue to happen.

Please, don't look at college students and coddle them like children. This will not help them grow as people. This will not help them prepare for the real world. Millennials are not fragile creatures that need to be protected from every evil of the world. Actually, they need to be shown every evil of the world so that they understand what it's truly like. We will be the next generation to run the world, we can't be sheltered away from all of the cruelty. If that were to happen, who would fight against all of it?