“..Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled?
Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper?
Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
This year’s college freshmen don’t.
They never lived in a world where Kurt Cobain was alive – or an NFL team played its home games in Los Angeles.
The Class of 2016 has no need for radios, watches television everywhere except on actual TV sets – and is addicted to “electronic narcotics.”
These are among the 75 references on this year’s Beloit College Mindset List -
- a nonscientific compilation is meant to remind teachers that college freshmen – born mostly in 1994 -
- see the world in a much different way…”
(ed:..i would confirm all of that..my ‘freshman’ disdains both tv and radio..
..the tv in his bedroom has never even been plugged in..let alone turned on..
..and the same goes for radio….
..all music/entertainment/news is sourced online..
..and the executives in those fields/current paradigms should be very very worried/nervous..
..they are in (in their current form) sunset-industries)
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