Baby Mindset List of the Class of 2015

[Coqui]

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit’s former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. Mindset List websites at Beloit College and at mindsetmoment.com, the media site webcast and their Facebook page receive more than a million hits annually.

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/

I've put here some of the ones I liked

4.The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.
31.Women have always been kissing women on television.
40.Sears has never sold anything out of a Big Book that could also serve as a doorstop.
60.Frasier, Sam, Woody and Rebecca have never Cheerfully frequented a bar in Boston during primetime.
74.“PC” has come to mean Personal Computer, not Political Correctness.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Welp, we're screwed.

 

[water]

Stop reading the list at:

There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.

 

[Duke]

Stop reading the list at:

There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.

Yeah, for educators, they really suck at trying to make comparative statements that make sense.

 

[Coqui]

Stop reading the list at:

There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.

I assumed they just meant, everyone has always had an Internet connection.

 

[plot]

Someone needs to let them know the class of 2015 has no idea what the information super highway is because that term died out in 1997.

 

[fly]

Someone needs to let them know the class of 2015 has no idea what the information super highway is because that term died out in 1997.

And how is the internet a ramp to the information highway? Isnt the internet THE information highway?

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Useless list is useless.

 

[Jonny_B]

poor start. they shouldn't try to be so cute with it. the perspective gained from just the facts is enough to make it interesting without the jokey writing style.