Tuesday, August 24

The Generation Gap Part II

It's still the first week of classes: they don't start actually repeating until tomorrow, when your Wednesday schedule matches your Monday schedule and if you're smart don't have a Friday schedule. But since people actually do read Dyxieland, I was tipped off by The Country Homo to this really great article from Beloit College in Wisconsin called "The Beloit College Mindset List." They publish a list each year of the things that are inherently true to the incoming freshmen class, "providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shapes the lives of students entering college this fall."

Cool, right? Answer: NO. It is merely another tool to make Chatty Kathy feel like old balls. Rude.

I read the class of 2014 list and then the class of 2011 (GO HAWKS.) to compare and contrast the differences and honestly, with the ones that were listed for 2011, I didn't have a shocking connection with them. Because they've always been true for me. The shock came from reading the 2014 list because when it's pointed out to you what is different for them, it is insane. I then read the first list available from 2002 and had even less of a reaction to anything they were saying. They're right I don't care who J.R is, but I do know who shot him. This guy:


Right?

Anyway, here are the links to the lists: 2014, 2011, 2002.

What are the ones that shock you most from those lists, or from your incoming freshman class? Don't worry, no ageists here, date yourself away.

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4 comments:

  1. "27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive."

    Ugh, that DOES make me feel old. I can remember having one of those sweet rigs with a 3 1/2 inch floppy-disk insert up to the time I was about 7 years old. WHERE'S MY CANE DAMN IT

    On the other hand, was there ever a time Beethoven wasn't a good name for a dog?

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  2. HAHAHAh i laughed so hard at that picture and your inclusion of it in general

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  3. OMGZZZ JUST NOTICED YOU HAVE A LINK TO MY BLOG THAAAAANKS

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  4. Is that Jake Gyllenhaal??

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