Some Thoughts From 18 year olds Entering College

[OCBuckWife]

BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST?
FOR THE CLASS OF 2011

Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.

1. What Berlin wall?
   
2. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
   
   
   
3. Rush Limbaugh and the ?Dittoheads? have always been lambasting liberals.
4. They never ?rolled down? a car window.
5. Michael Moore has always been angry and funny.
6. They may confuse the Keating Five with a rock group.
7. They have grown up with bottled water.
   
8. General Motors has always been working on an electric car.
9. Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
10. Pete Rose has never played baseball.
11. Rap music has always been mainstream.
12. Religious leaders have always been telling politicians what to do, or else!
13. ?Off the hook? has never had anything to do with a telephone.
14. Music has always been ?unplugged.?
15. Russia has always had a multi-party political system.
16. Women have always been police chiefs in major cities.
17. They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.
18. The NBA season has always gone on and on and on and on.
19. Classmates could include Michelle Wie, Jordin Sparks, and Bart Simpson.
20. Half of them may have been members of the Baby-sitters Club.
21. Eastern Airlines has never ?earned their wings? in their lifetime.
22. No one has ever been able to sit down comfortably to a meal of ?liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.?
23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
24. Being ?lame? has to do with being dumb or inarticulate, not disabled.
25. Wolf Blitzer has always been serving up the news on CNN.
26. Katie Couric has always had screen cred.
27. Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
28. They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola ?MagiCan.?
29. They were too young to understand Judas Priest?s subliminal messages.
30. When all else fails, the Prozac defense has always been a possibility.
31. Multigrain chips have always provided healthful junk food.
32. They grew up in Wayne?s World.
33. U2 has always been more than a spy plane.
34. They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as ?The Joker.?
35. Stadiums, rock tours and sporting events have always had corporate names.
36. American rock groups have always appeared in Moscow.
37. Commercial product placements have been the norm in films and on TV.
38. On Parents? Day on campus, their folks could be mixing it up with Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz with daughter Z?e, or Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford with son Cody.
39. Fox has always been a major network.
40. They drove their parents crazy with the Beavis and Butt-Head laugh.
41. The ?Blue Man Group? has always been everywhere.
42. Women?s studies majors have always been offered on campus.
43. Being a latchkey kid has never been a big deal.
44. Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time.
45. They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcolm X from Spike Lee.
46. Most phone calls have never been private.
47. High definition television has always been available.
48. Microbreweries have always been ubiquitous.
49. Virtual reality has always been available when the real thing failed.
50. Smoking has never been allowed in public spaces in France.
51. China has always been more interested in making money than in reeducation.
52. Time has always worked with Warner.
53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
    
    
    
54. The purchase of ivory has always been banned.
55. MTV has never featured music videos.
56. The space program has never really caught their attention except in disasters.
    
57. Jerry Springer has always been lowering the level of discourse on TV.
58. They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
59. They?re always texting 1 n other.
60. They will encounter roughly equal numbers of female and male professors in the classroom.
61. They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.
62. They have no idea who Rusty Jones was or why he said ?goodbye to rusty cars.?
63. Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities.
64. Chavez has nothing to do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil.
65. Illinois has been trying to ban smoking since the year they were born.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
67. Chronic fatigue syndrome has always been debilitating and controversial.
68. Burma has always been Myanmar.
69. Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.
70. Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.
    

 

[starBUCKS]

Wow this list makes me feel like I should have a mid-life crisis at 30.

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

[*]Smoking has never been allowed in public spaces in France.

Huh? France is the smokiest place I've ever been.

It was disgusting.

 

[SparkyOSU]

They forgot:

--------Dumbass skinny jeans, and stringy ass '80's-like hair and clothes' is becoming a fad.


Freaking straight boys wearing girls jeans and straight girls wearing skater outfits. Who the hell said todays Seniors should dress themselves???? And I am not some old fart. I am 20-freaking-six and I still think this is <controversial language ahead> the queerist generation ever!!!!

I went to see "The EYE" tonight. Twice I thought a girl was walking ahead of me in the mall only to realize it was a 17-18 year old boy.

End Rant.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST?
FOR THE CLASS OF 2011

Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.

1. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
2. They never ?rolled down? a car window.
3. No one has ever been able to sit down comfortably to a meal of ?liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.?
4. High definition television has always been available.
5. MTV has never featured music videos.
6. They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.
7. Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.

If they were born in 1989:

1. Hummers weren't sold to the public until 1992.
2. Power-windows are still an option in many new cars, and it's hard to believe most 18-year-olds never have riden in a car made in the '70s or '80s when power windows were rare.
3. The Silence of the Lambs came out in 1991, so folks could enjoy liver, fava beans, etc., in 1989 and 1990.
4. HDTV wasn't available in the US until 1998.
5. MTV was still showing primarily music videos through the beginning of 1993 (at least).
6. They did see Johnny Carson live on TV, unless they didn't watch TV until the age of 3 (Carson retired from the Tonight Show in 1992).
7. Food labeling didn't start until 1990.

 

[OCBuckWife]

If they were born in 1989:

1. Hummers weren't sold to the public until 1992.
2. Power-windows are still an option in many new cars, and it's hard to believe most 18-year-olds never have riden in a car made in the '70s or '80s when power windows were rare.
3. The Silence of the Lambs came out in 1991, so folks could enjoy liver, fava beans, etc., in 1989 and 1990.
4. HDTV wasn't available in the US until 1998.
5. MTV was still showing primarily music videos through the beginning of 1993 (at least).
6. They did see Johnny Carson live on TV, unless they didn't watch TV until the age of 3 (Carson retired from the Tonight Show in 1992).
7. Food labeling didn't start until 1990.

I think it's not so much that the dates are exact but that if they had been born in 1989, by the time they became self-aware enough to pay attention to the world around them, those things were true in their "worldview." By 1998 they would only have been 9 for example. It's zeitgeist rather than factual.

 

[BUCKYLE]

I think it's not so much that the dates are exact but that if they had been born in 1989, by the time they became self-aware enough to pay attention to the world around them, those things were true in their "worldview." By 1998 they would only have been 9 for example. It's zeitgeist rather than factual.

He knows that, he just likes to shit on people.

 

[ScarletBlood31]

If they were born in 1989:

1. Hummers weren't sold to the public until 1992.
2. Power-windows are still an option in many new cars, and it's hard to believe most 18-year-olds never have riden in a car made in the '70s or '80s when power windows were rare.
3. The Silence of the Lambs came out in 1991, so folks could enjoy liver, fava beans, etc., in 1989 and 1990.
4. HDTV wasn't available in the US until 1998.
5. MTV was still showing primarily music videos through the beginning of 1993 (at least).
6. They did see Johnny Carson live on TV, unless they didn't watch TV until the age of 3 (Carson retired from the Tonight Show in 1992).
7. Food labeling didn't start until 1990.

Give it up, old man.....

 

[IronBuckI]

He knows that, he just likes to shit on people.

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog did not premier until 1997.

This is a great list...for me to poop on.

 

[BB73]

If they were born in 1989:

1. Hummers weren't sold to the public until 1992.
2. Power-windows are still an option in many new cars, and it's hard to believe most 18-year-olds never have riden in a car made in the '70s or '80s when power windows were rare.
3. The Silence of the Lambs came out in 1991, so folks could enjoy liver, fava beans, etc., in 1989 and 1990.
4. HDTV wasn't available in the US until 1998.
5. MTV was still showing primarily music videos through the beginning of 1993 (at least).
6. They did see Johnny Carson live on TV, unless they didn't watch TV until the age of 3 (Carson retired from the Tonight Show in 1992).
7. Food labeling didn't start until 1990.

Also, Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

 

[Steve19]

Also, Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

I was running a corporate culture transformation session a few weeks before his release. Many of us knew something was imminent. It was now possible to mention his name without fear of arrest. Ten years earlier, it would have been VERY unwise!

So, we decided to bring his name up in a room of about 500 workers and breach the topic in a safe space where management and workers could react, so a period of transformation could then begin. It is hard to explain this to anyone who has not lived in a police state.

Anyway, I asked the room if they had heard of the great Mandela.

The room went completely silent. All of the workers' eyes grew quite wide and I suspect they thought a police operation was about to start. So, I reassured them that I and the others were not from the police and that it was okay to talk about Mandela. Still, they looked at me.

So, I thought, "ask them a simple question and get the ball rolling." So, I asked them, what is Mandela's first name? Who can tell me Mandela's first name? After almost a minute, which seemed like a lifetime, I directly asked a man in the front row.

"His first name is Release." Years of protest grafitti saying "Release Mandela" had achieved their aim.

As we all laughed, I realized that he had been in prison as long as most of them had been alive. And I realized it was possible that there would be no revolution and everything might be okay.

 

[scooter1369]

Here ya go.

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 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?
American tax forms have always been available in Spanish.
More Americans have always traveled to Latin America than to Europe.
Amazon has never been just a river in South America.
Refer to LBJ, and they might assume you're talking about LeBron James.
All their lives, Whitney Houston has always been declaring ?I Will Always Love You.?
O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Women have never been too old to have children.
Japan has always been importing rice.
Jim Carrey has always been bigger than a pet detective.
We have never asked, and they have never had to tell.
Life has always been like a box of chocolates.
They?ve always gone to school with Mohammed and Jesus.
John Wayne Bobbitt has always slept with one eye open.
There has never been an official Communist Party in Russia.
?Yadda, yadda, yadda? has always come in handy to make long stories short.
Video games have always had ratings.
Chicken soup has always been soul food.
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.
Dial-up is soooooooooo last century!
Women have always been kissing women on television.
Their older siblings have told them about the days when Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera were Mouseketeers.
Faux Christmas trees have always outsold real ones.
They?ve always been able to dismiss boring old ideas with ?been there, done that, gotten the T-shirt.?
The bloody conflict between the government and a religious cult has always made Waco sound a little whacko.
Unlike their older siblings, they spent bedtime on their backs until they learned to roll over.
Music has always been available via free downloads.
Grown-ups have always been arguing about health care policy.
Moderate amounts of red wine and baby aspirin have always been thought good for the heart.
Sears has never sold anything out of a Big Book that could also serve as a doorstop.
The United States has always been shedding fur.
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.
They pressured their parents to take them to Taco Bell or Burger King to get free pogs.
Russian courts have always had juries.
No state has ever failed to observe Martin Luther King Day.
While they?ve been playing outside, their parents have always worried about nasty new bugs borne by birds and mosquitoes.
Public schools have always made space available for advertising.
Some of them have been inspired to actually cook by watching the Food Channel.
Fidel Castro?s daughter and granddaughter have always lived in the United States.
Their parents have always been able to create a will and other legal documents online.
Charter schools have always been an alternative.
They?ve grown up with George Stephanopoulos as the Dick Clark of political analysts.
New kids have always been known as NKOTB.
They?ve always wanted to be like Shaq or Kobe: Michael Who?
They?ve often broken up with their significant others via texting, Facebook, or MySpace.
Their parents sort of remember Woolworths as this store that used to be downtown.59.
Kim Jong-il has always been bluffing, but the West has always had to take him seriously.
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.
Nurses have always been in short supply.
They won?t go near a retailer that lacks a website.
Altar girls have never been a big deal.
When they were 3, their parents may have battled other parents in toy stores to buy them a Tickle Me Elmo while they lasted.
It seems the United States has always been looking for an acceptable means of capital execution.
Folks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have always been able to energize with Pepsi Cola.
Andy Warhol is a museum in Pittsburgh.
They?ve grown up hearing about suspiciously vanishing frogs.
They?ve always had the privilege of talking with a chatterbot.
Refugees and prisoners have always been housed by the U.S. government at Guantanamo.
Women have always been Venusians; men, Martians.
McDonalds coffee has always been just a little too hot to handle.
?PC? has come to mean Personal Computer, not Political Correctness.
The New York Times and the Boston Globe have never been rival newspapers.

 

[Jake]

"O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman."