The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014
Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.
For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
Al Gore has always been animated.
“Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.
Entering college this fall in a country where a quarter of young people under 18 have at least one immigrant parent, they aren't afraid of immigration...unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet.
John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.
Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.
Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.
Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
Food has always been irradiated.
There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.
They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.