posted 11-29-2001 12:09 PM         

Enjoy,
Voodoo

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the Faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshman.

Here is this year's list:

- The people who are starting college this fall across the nation
were born in 1982.
- They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and
probably did not know he had ever been shot.
- They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
- Black Monday, 1987 is as significant to them as the Great
Depression.
- There has been only one Pope.
- They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember
the Cold War.
- They have never feared a nuclear war.
- They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
- Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
- Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
- Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.
- The expression "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to
them.
- They have never owned a record player.
- They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of
Pong.
- They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact Disc was
introduced when they were 1 year old.
- As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33 cents.
- They have always had an answering machine.
- Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they
seen a black and white TV.
- They have always had cable.
- There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA was.
- They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
- They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is, or know about the
"Help, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.

Feeling old yet? There's more: