What to feel REALLY old?: The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013

These things have always been true for people born in 1991:

1 For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.

2 Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Kevorkian, and Mike Tyson have always been felons.

3 The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.

4 They have never used a card catalog to find a book.

5 Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.

6 Salsa has always outsold ketchup.

7 Earvin "Magic" Johnson has always been HIV-positive.

8 Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible.

9 They have been preparing for the arrival of HDTV all their lives.

10 Rap music has always been main stream.

more:
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2013.php

I wanted to tell the little kids in class today that when I started high school, HW was president, nobody had heard of Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder, and only the rich kids had CD players. :P

rhat when I was their age:
There was no mandatory "moment of silence" nonsense
There was no required recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
There was no dress code
There was a smoking area
Other smoking was ignored/tolerated
No one ever brought a gun to school and killed people

But why depress them?

One of them had a folder with the school rules spelled out.

I just about died. The rules...

"When someone at an assembly is speaking, show respect. This is a good opportunity to practice listening skills you will use in later life."

Ad infinitum. :eyes:

while attending boring, mind numbing, pointless presentations.
Maybe they will follow us into our profession with its required attendance at faculty, department, and professional learning meetings.

Hope you have a good year :)

between the "other smoking" and the lack of need/want for a gun...............

That is so random, it isn't like that paper was the NYT or WaPo.... How many people outside the DFW area ever really knew about it?

And the other things on the list aren't particularly intriguing either.... except the card catalog one. I do miss the card catalog. :D

1.anyone who wanted one could buy a Camaro,Trans-am,442,Chevelle Ect. for $500-1000 and the Chevy Vega was voted the "Car of the Year" by Motor Trend.

2.There were 7 T.V. Channels (And this was a Big T.V. market-N.Y.C.) 2/CBS, 4/NBS, 5/WNEW-Indp. 7/ABC, 9/WOR-Indp, 11/WPIX-Indp.13/PBS

3. Nixon wasn't a Crook

4.Space Food Stix...need I say more?

1. Computers were room-sized machines programmed with punch cards

2. There were no CD players, pocket calculators, cell phones, DVD players, or even VCRs

3. Many of the most popular actors of today weren't even born yet

4. Our parents made about $6,000 a year.

5. Girls had to wear skirts or dresses to school, even in the dead of winter, and boys couldn't wear jeans or shirts without buttons and collars. If a boy's hair was too long, the male teacher's would grab him in the hallway and forcibly give him a crewcut

6. There were four TV networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.

7. Most radio was still AM. FM was mostly classical, jazz, or album rock

8. Most of the famous movie actors of the 1930s were still alive and even active in their careers

9. It was the height of the Vietnam War

10. The only girls' sports team was softball

11. China was routinely referred to as "Red China"