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!