Beloit College's Mindset List® for the Class of 2011

Beloit College:

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.

# What Berlin wall?

# Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.

Cathy Lynn Grossman has more:

For this fall's incoming college class, "off the hook" could mean "excellent" or escaping blame, but for sure it has nothing to do with telephones.

"Here's Johnny!" That's Jack Nicholson in The Shining, not the intro for Johnny Carson's monologue, according to today's 18-year-olds.

Professors had best update their lingo if they want to communicate with the Class of 2011 (on the assumption that anyone actually finishes in four years anymore).

Here to help is the 10th annual Beloit College Mindset List, released today by the small Wisconsin liberal arts college.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 27, 2007 12:00 AM
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