G*d, do I feel old...
For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums...
The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry* urging punks to "go ahead, make my day."Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch.
These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List...
The list is meant to remind teachers that cultural references familiar to them might draw blank stares from college freshmen born mostly in 1992.
Of course, it can also have the unintended consequence of making people feel old...
*Yup, I'm old alright. Never mind "Dirty Harry"; I can remember when Clint Eastwood was Rowdy Yates on Rawhide.
Addendum: On a related note Becoming a Squinter Nation , or "How Technology Tries Our Eyesight."
The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry* urging punks to "go ahead, make my day."Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a wristwatch.
These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List...
The list is meant to remind teachers that cultural references familiar to them might draw blank stares from college freshmen born mostly in 1992.
Of course, it can also have the unintended consequence of making people feel old...
*Yup, I'm old alright. Never mind "Dirty Harry"; I can remember when Clint Eastwood was Rowdy Yates on Rawhide.
Addendum: On a related note Becoming a Squinter Nation , or "How Technology Tries Our Eyesight."