Mindset List of This Year’s College Freshman Class
Every year since 1998, Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, has published a list to help instructors understand the mindset and life experience of the incoming freshman class. It helps put everything into perspective.
This year’s list contains the following reminders/observations:
- Having grown up with MP3s and iPods, they never listen to music on the car radio and really have no use for radio at all.
- Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers
- Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes “American Royalty.”
- “Mom! Dad! Stop referring to CDs and DVDs at tapes!”
- These people were born in 1994. That means Kurt Cobain has always been dead to them.
#5 made me look around for my walker. :/