Once in class I made reference to “the TV’s fine-tuning knob”.
Students looked at me like I was, well, pretty old.
Glad to see that a variant of the cliché made Beloit College’s Class of 2015 “Mindset List” which gives a snapshot of the world view of the incoming freshmen class.
Note: Most students entering college for the first time this fall — members of the Class of 2015 — were born in 1993.
Here are more of my favorites:
1. There has always been an Internet ramp onto the information highway.
4. The only significant labor disputes in their lifetimes have been in major league sports.
9. “Don’t touch that dial!” . what dial?
10. American tax forms have always been available in Spanish.
12. Amazon has never been just a river in South America.
15. O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
24. “Yadda, yadda, yadda” has always come in handy to make long stories short.
28. Jimmy Carter has always been a smiling elderly man who shows up on TV to promote fair elections and disaster relief.
30. Dial-up is soooooooooo last century!
33. Faux Christmas trees have always outsold real ones.
34. They’ve always been able to dismiss boring old ideas with “been there, done that, gotten the T-shirt.”
37. Music has always been available via free downloads.
38. Grown-ups have always been arguing about health care policy.
39. Moderate amounts of red wine and baby aspirin have always been thought good for the heart.
48. While they’ve been playing outside, their parents have always worried about nasty new bugs borne by birds and mosquitoes.
57. They’ve often broken up with their significant others via texting, Facebook, or MySpace.
61. Major League Baseball has never had fewer than three divisions and never lacked a wild-card entry in the playoffs.
64. Altar girls have never been a big deal.
71. Refugees and prisoners have always been housed by the U.S. government at Guantanamo.
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