HOW OLD DO YOU FEEL NOW

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 that years incoming freshmen. Here is this year’s list:

  1. The people who started college this fall across the nation were born in 1980.
  2. Thy have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and did not know he had ever been shot.
  3. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
  4. Black Monday in 1987 is as insignificant to them as the Great Depression.
  5. There has been only one Pope. They can only remember one president.
  6. They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War.
  7. They have never feared a nuclear war. "The Day After" is a pill to them, not a movie.
  8. They are too young to remember the Space Shuttle blowing up.
  9. Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
  10. Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
  11. Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
  12. Atari pre-dates them, as do vinyl albums.
  13. The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
  14. They have never owned a record player.
  15. They have never played Pac-Man and have never heard of Pong.
  16. Star Wars looks very fake to them and the special effects are considered pathetic.
  17. There have always been red M&Ms and blue ones are not new. There used to be tan ones?
  18. They may have heard of an eight track tape, but probably have never actually seen or heard one.
  19. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old.
  20. As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
  21. They have always had an answering machine.
  22. Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black & white TV.
  23. They have always had cable.
  24. There has always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA is.
  25. They can not fathom not having a remote control.
  26. They were born the year that Walkman was introduced by Sony.
  27. Roller-skating has always meant in-line skating for them.
  28. The Tonight Show has always been hosted by Jay Leno.
  29. They have no idea when or why Jordache jeans were cool.
  30. Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
  31. They have never seen Larry Bird play, and Kareem Abdul-jabbar is a football player.
  32. They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
  33. The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII, or even the Civil War.
  34. They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.
  35. They cannot imagine what hard contact lenses are.
  36. They never heard "Where’s the beef?", "I’d walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane, de plane!"
  37. They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R. is.
  38. The Titanic was found? I thought we always knew where it was.
  39. They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from.
  40. Michael Jackson has always been white.
  41. Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America and Alabama are places, not groups.
  42. McDonalds never came in Styrofoam containers.
  43. There has always been MTV.
 

Do you feel old yet?

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