I will be 37 at the end of this month, but the following email I got this week makes me feel really old…
Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year’s incoming freshmen. Here’s this year’s list:
*The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1989.
*They are too young to remember the space Shuttle blowing up.
*Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
*Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
*The CD was introduced the year they were born.
*They have always had an answering! Machine
*They have always had cable.
*They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
*Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
*Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
*They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
*They can’t imagine what hard contact lenses are.
*They don’t know who Mork was or where he was from.
*They never heard: “Where’s the Beef?” or “de plane, Boss, de plane.”
*They do not care who shot J. R. And have no idea who J. R. Even is.
*McDonald’s never came in Styrofoam containers.
*They don’t have a clue how to use a typewriter.
Sigh!
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