The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen 383
Beloit College has come out with its annual Mindset List of what the incoming class (of 2013) has always known and has never known. "For these students, ... the Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables. They have never used a card catalog to find a book. ... Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible. ... Rap music has always been mainstream. ... Except for the present incumbent, the President has never inhaled. ... Amateur radio operators have never needed to know Morse code."
Re:!news (Score:3, Funny)
Not news new here? Not new.
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"They have never used a card catalog to find a book"
What's a book?
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Re:No, please, stay on my lawn... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Seinfeld is "classic TV"... (Score:1, Funny)
... and U2 sucks.
That has always been true.
Re:Fucked? Hell no! Not yet at least... (Score:3, Funny)
... still - on the the bright side - at least we got fucked....
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Girls! GIRLS! GIRLS!!!
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Completely lost on them...... (Score:4, Funny)
"you have died of dysentery"
As well as MS-DOS and the Apple II.
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What is a "Britney Spears"?
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I was a UM Freshman in 1992... We learned binary by drawing 8x8 grids, writing "256 | 128 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1" over them
I was a Mississippi State freshman in 1979, and we still could only fit "128 | 64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1" above an 8x8 grid. I hope to God that your UM was Ole Miss!
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Re:1984 much? (Score:2, Funny)
'The European Union has always existed'.
My wife was teaching a first-year economics course last year, and in one lecture she displayed some OECD data from the last 40 years or so. A student put up his hand and asked "Why does it say *WEST* Germany?" :-)
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Must be an Americanization of Brittany spears, which, of course, are French polearms.
-Peter
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Re:1984 much? (Score:5, Funny)