Thursday, September 7, 2017

What are they thinking?

The Mindset List from Beloit College is out. This year’s list describes those students entering college this fall, meaning they were likely born in 1999 and graduate in 2021. The list is written to tell college professors a bit about the cultural references of incoming students. A few things from this year’s list (go ahead and feel old):

* They are the last class to be born in the 1900s, the last of the Millennials -- enter next year, on cue, Generation Z!

* They are the first generation for whom a “phone” has been primarily a video game, direction finder, electronic telegraph, and research library.

* *Peanuts* comic strips have always been repeats.

* By the time they entered school, laptops were outselling desktops.

* Men have always shared a romantic smooch on television.

* Bill Clinton has always been Hillary Clinton’s aging husband.

No comments:

Post a Comment