Each year at this time, the Beloit College Mindset List is available to help college professors better understand the incoming freshmen. Since my middle kid is heading off to LSU Thursday, the list isn’t quite as helpful to me as it might be to others. Here are a few highlights of the list. You can find the whole list here.
Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990.
• Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddy Krueger have always been dead.
• They have always been looking for Carmen Sandiego.
• Coke and Pepsi have always used recycled plastic bottles
• Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.
• WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
• Films have never been X rated, only NC-17.
• Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.
• IBM has never made typewriters.
• Wayne Newton has never had a mustache.
• There have always been gay rabbis.
• Caller ID has always been available on phones.
• The Green Bay Packers (almost) always had the same starting quarterback.
• They never heard an attendant ask “Want me to check under the hood?”
• Soft drink refills have always been free.
• There have always been charter schools.
• Off-shore oil drilling in the United States has always been prohibited.
• 98.6 F or otherwise has always been confirmed in the ear.
• Muscovites have always been able to buy Big Macs.
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