The ‘Mindset List’ -Wear wristwatch? Use e-mail? Not for Class of ‘14
Very interesting.
My daughter will be College Class of ‘14, and all of this holds true. Her handwriting is a sort of a print (though she can write in cursive, it’s near illegible) - the only letters she writes are “thank you notes”, though she’d prefer to send an e-mail or text her thanks, if it’s possible!
Here are the first 10 - the full list contains 75; read it here.
And here is a short article about this information, including how college teachers use the information (and also including the gem that most of the Class of ‘14 has never used a corded phone, except maybe at Grandma’s house).
Every year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of the world view of the incoming freshmen class. The list for the Class of 2014:
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Most students entering college for the first time this fall — members of the Class of 2014 — were born in 1992. For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Burt Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
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1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. E-mail is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
3. “Go west, young college grad,” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia and learn Chinese along the way.”
4. Al Gore has always been animated.
5. Los Angelinos have always been trying to get along.
6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other bloodsuckers at Hemery High.
7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-cafvanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.
8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend.
10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.