Posted on 08/19/2008 5:00:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
(College freshmen haven’t experienced soft drinks in glass)
For 18-year-olds entering college this fall, Walt Disney World has always had competition from Universal Studios in Orlando.
No glass bottles of Coke or Pepsi for these teens. Aside from the retro bottles, these soft drinks have always come in recycled plastic.
And, oh, how the technology has advanced. Not only did Windows 3.0 come out the year before these teens were born, but shampoo and conditioner have always been available in the same bottle.
Beloit College released today this year's version of its Mindset List; a collection of 60 cultural waypoints originally designed to help the college's professors understand where the incoming students are coming from.
Now folks from around the country look to the list each year to see how times have changed.
Multiculturalism and environmentalism have always been a large part of life for those born in 1990 and later, said Ron Nief, the school's public affairs director and one of the people who assemble the annual list.
Also, items many older folks consider high-tech are commonplace for these teens. A decade ago, Nief notes, some college students were just giving up pay phones. Colleges were installing phone lines in individual dorm rooms for the first time.
Now students who enter school don't even know why the phone lines are there, Nief said. Many haven't used a landline in years.
"Technology is such a part of their lives, they don't even recognize it," Nief said.
Some other list highlights:
• Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team. The character was created in 1990.
• GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
• Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.
• Martha Stewart Living has always been setting the style.
• We have always known that "All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten."
• There have always been gay rabbis.
• Wayne Newton has never had a mustache.
• "The Tonight Show" has always been hosted by Jay Leno.
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php
A person doesn't realize how fast time races by
until an article like this, opens ones eyes...
WOW
In Beloit?
I look forward to this list every year.
Thanks for posting it here.
From their viewpoint, traitors have always gotten away with treason. Communism has been taught as a good principle on college campuses. And the Earth has “always” been warming.
As opposed to Goose pimples I suppose.
And one more surprise: They can vote.
My kids know about Coke in bottles, with real sugar, not “high fructose corn syrup”. Taking us back in time, Costco sells the real Real Thing, made in Mexico, in 12-oz green-glass Coke-shaped non-refundable bottles.
Good grief I am ancient. To me IBM = Selectric. Waiting for the first whippersnapper to ask what Selectric means.......
Isn't that like a electric printing press? :~)
You wanna fight???? Bet you don’t know what carbon paper is either ; )
I used to type on a Selectric. Do you remember mimeograph machines? I used to work in the principal’s office & ran off mimeograph copies. I loved the smell of them!
I hear VOICES!
The VOICES keep telling me to turn LEFT!
Do you hear that, or is it in my head?
What a youngster --
IBM = It's Better Manually
Isn't that what Algore prints your carbon credits on? :~)
Is that what you do with your new magic set?
Just kidding. I'm gaining on 40 faster'n a dropping house price in California.
“Waiting for the first whippersnapper to ask what Selectric means......”
Why of course it means the 1971 typewriter with Times New Roman 11 pitch proportional kerned font! It did superscripts, too, rather nice!
I bet neither of you have seen a ditto machine. :-D
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