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How this year’s freshmen see the world

August 18, 2010 by Jacob Hawley
Posted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Student Life

Prepare to feel old: Here’s a list of all the things the class of 2014 is too young to know about. 

Beloit College has released its 12th annual Mindset List, looking at the cultural reference points of students entering college this year. Created to remind faculty of dated references, it has since become a catalog of the changing worldview of each incoming class.

For these students:

  • Benny Hill, Sam Kinison and Tony Perkins have always been dead
  • Cursive writing is a nearly unknown skill
  • E-mail is slow, and regular snail mail is almost never used
  • The world has always been trying to accommodate people with disabilities with ramps, Braille signs and handicapped parking spaces
  • A quarter of them has at least one immigrant parent
  • Korean cars have always been a staple of American highways
  • Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess
  • Phones have never been attached to coiled handset wires
  • DNA fingerprinting and human genome mapping have always existed
  • Czechoslovakia has never existed
  • Domino’s delivery boys have never killed themselves to rush a pizza to their house in under 30 minutes
  • There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics
  • Russians and Americans have always been partners in space exploration
  • Nirvana and Pearl Jam are on the classic rock station, and
  • J.R. Ewing is still a completely unknown reference.

Check out the full list here, and share your thoughts in the comments section.

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