Classic Rock
One of the most entertaining cultural barometers published each year is the Beloit College Mindset List, which can give a jarring perspective on the world in which today’s young people were raised. Here’s a quick summary of the newest list, as reported by MSNBC today:
MILWAUKEE — For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.
The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to “go ahead, make my day.” Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch.
These are among the 75 items on this year’s Beloit College Mindset List. The compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at this private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis.
It’s worth reading the entire list for 2014 (and previous years if you have the time), but below you’ll find a few other facts that caught our eye here at Luckie.
To a Class of 2014 student, born in 1992:
• Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
• Czechoslovakia has never existed.
• Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
• Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
• Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
• They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
• They’ve always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.
• American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
Which ones jumped out at you?
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