Last week in class we watched a video made by a group of young adults who were born into the millennial generation. This generation is falls specifically between 1982 through 2002. These are also children of the Baby Boomers, Generation X and born post Vietnam War, but pre-9/11. In the video the people talked about how "sorry" they were for all the things our generation is accused of being (lazy, entitled, spoiled) and doing (being violent, crashing the economy, crating technology that makes us antisocial). It's obvious that everyone in the video is being sarcastic, however watching the video got me thinking about how "Millennials" are perceived to older generations. My parents fall into Generation X, but most Millenial's parents are baby boomers. Either way, the Millennial generation is thought to be the generation that ruined America. Why though? Because when I was only four years old when 9/11 happened and i was only 9 when the economy crashed. Now older Millenials, people who are in their 20s or 30s are fighting wars they didn't start. Now I'm going to have to go to college and probably end up in a ridiculous amount of student debt, only to try to find a job that there is a limited number of thanks to the recession. Millennials, not matter how lazy or tech-orientated, our parents think we are, are probably the most resilient, ambitious, and innovative generation to date. We volunteer for wars we didn't start and had no say in, we manage to stay in school and go in to college and we've somehow managed to be a a generation of entrepreneurs with a new way to approach life (just look at Mark Zuckerburg). So yes, maybe as a Millennials we spend too much time on instagram and are somewhat isolated, but we're also strong (much more than our parents probably give us credit for) and there's no telling how much more we can accomplish.