Most students entering college this fall were born in 1987. Here is part of the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2009. These fine young folks:
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Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead. - They don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors.
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Pay-Per-View television has always been an option. - They are more familiar with Greg Gumbel than with Bryant Gumbel.
- Voice mail has always been available.
- They may have fallen asleep playing with their Gameboys in the crib.
- Bill Gates has always been worth at least a billion dollars.
- American Motors has never existed.
- They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly.
- They never saw Pat Sajak or Arsenio Hall host a late night television show.
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Black Americans have always been known as African-Americans. - Digital cameras have always existed.
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CNBC has always been on the air. -
Entertainment Weekly has always been on the newsstand. - Jimmy Carter has always been an elder statesman.
- America's Funniest Home Videos has always been on television.
- Lever has always been looking for 2000 parts to clean.
via Harris Online
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