The Mindset of this Year's College Freshman Class

Beloit college annually posts a list of facts that help let us know what the mindset of the entering college class might have. I always find these lists interesting. Her is the Mindset List for the Class of 2015

Andre the Giant, River Phoenix, Frank Zappa, Arthur Ashe and the Commodore 64 have always been dead.

Their classmates could include Taylor Momsen, Angus Jones, Howard Stern's daughter Ashley, and the Dilley Sextuplets.

There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.

Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents.

States and Velcro parents have always been requiring that they wear their bike helmets.

The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.

There have nearly always been at least two women on the Supreme Court, and women have always commanded U.S. Navy ships.

They “swipe” cards, not merchandise.

As they’ve grown up on websites and cell phones, adult experts have constantly fretted about their alleged deficits of empathy and concentration.

Their school’s “blackboards” have always been getting smarter.

“Don’t touch that dial!”….what dial?

More Americans have always traveled to Latin America than to Europe.

Amazon has never been just a river in South America.

Japan has always been importing rice.

We have never asked, and they have never had to tell.

Life has always been like a box of chocolates.

Video games have always had ratings.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been available on TV.

Jimmy Carter has always been a smiling elderly man who shows up on TV to promote fair elections and disaster relief.

Arnold Palmer has always been a drink.

Women have always been kissing women on television.

Music has always been available via free downloads.

Sears has never sold anything out of a Big Book that could also serve as a doorstop.

Electric cars have always been humming in relative silence on the road.

No longer known for just gambling and quickie divorces, Nevada has always been one of the fastest growing states in the Union.

They’re the first generation to grow up hearing about the dangerous overuse of antibiotics.

Russian courts have always had juries.

No state has ever failed to observe Martin Luther King Day.

Some of them have been inspired to actually cook by watching the Food Channel.

They’ve grown up with George Stephanopoulos as the Dick Clark of political analysts.

They’ve often broken up with their significant others via texting, Facebook, or MySpace.

Frasier, Sam, Woody and Rebecca have never Cheerfully frequented a bar in Boston during primetime.

Major League Baseball has never had fewer than three divisions and never lacked a wild card entry in the playoffs.

When they were 3, their parents may have battled other parents in toy stores to buy them a Tickle Me Elmo while they lasted.

Folks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have always been able to energize with Pepsi Cola.

Andy Warhol is a museum in Pittsburgh.

Refugees and prisoners have always been housed by the U.S. government at Guantanamo.

The New York Times and the Boston Globe have never been rival newspapers.

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