[Infowarrior] - Beloit's Annual Depressing Survey

[Richard Forno]

Depressing, because, at the very least, it is another reminder of how  
OLD we are becoming!!!!    :)    ---rf



The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2013.php

    Most students entering college for the first time this fall were  
born in 1991.

	• For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael  
Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene  
Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.
	• Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Kevorkian, and Mike Tyson have always been  
felons.
	• The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking  
vegetables.
	• They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
	• Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.
	• Salsa has always outsold ketchup.
	• Earvin "Magic" Johnson has always been HIV-positive.
	• Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible.
	• They have been preparing for the arrival of HDTV all their lives.
	• Rap music has always been main stream.
	• Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream has always been a flavor  
choice.
	• Someone has always been building something taller than the Willis  
(née Sears) Tower in Chicago.
	• The KGB has never officially existed.
	• Text has always been hyper.
	• They never saw the “Scud Stud” (but there have always been  
electromagnetic stud finders.)
	• Babies have always had a Social Security Number.
	• They have never had to “shake down” an oral thermometer.
	• Bungee jumping has always been socially acceptable.
	• They have never understood the meaning of R.S.V.P.
	• American students have always lived anxiously with high-stakes  
educational testing.
	• Except for the present incumbent, the President has never inhaled.
	• State abbreviations in addresses have never had periods.
	• The European Union has always existed.
	• McDonald's has always been serving Happy Meals in China.
	• Condoms have always been advertised on television.
	• Cable television systems have always offered telephone service and  
vice versa.
	• Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap.
	• The American health care system has always been in critical  
condition.
	• Bobby Cox has always managed the Atlanta Braves.
	• Desperate smokers have always been able to turn to Nicoderm skin  
patches.
	• There has always been a Cartoon Network.
	• The nation’s key economic indicator has always been the Gross  
Domestic Product (GDP).
	• Their folks could always reach for a Zoloft.
	• They have always been able to read books on an electronic screen.
	• Women have always outnumbered men in college.
	• We have always watched wars, coups, and police arrests unfold on  
television in real time.
	• Amateur radio operators have never needed to know Morse code.
	• Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Latvia, Georgia,  
Lithuania, and Estonia have always been independent nations.
	• It's always been official: President Zachary Taylor did not die of  
arsenic poisoning.
	• Madonna’s perspective on Sex has always been well documented.
	• Phil Jackson has always been coaching championship basketball.
	• Ozzy Osbourne has always been coming back.
	• Kevin Costner has always been Dancing with Wolves, especially on  
cable.
	• There have always been flat screen televisions.
	• They have always eaten Berry Berry Kix.
	• Disney’s Fantasia has always been available on video, and It’s a  
Wonderful Life has always been on Moscow television.
	• Smokers have never been promoted as an economic force that deserves  
respect.
	• Elite American colleges have never been able to fix the price of  
tuition.
	• Nobody has been able to make a deposit in the Bank of Credit and  
Commerce International (BCCI).
	• Everyone has always known what the evening news was before the  
Evening News came on.
	• Britney Spears has always been heard on classic rock stations.
	• They have never been Saved by the Bell
	• Someone has always been asking: “Was Iraq worth a war?”
	• Most communities have always had a mega-church.
	• Natalie Cole has always been singing with her father.
	• The status of gays in the military has always been a topic of  
political debate.
	• Elizabeth Taylor has always reeked of White Diamonds.
	• There has always been a Planet Hollywood.
	• For one reason or another, California’s future has always been in  
doubt.
	• Agent Starling has always feared the Silence of the Lambs.
	• “Womyn” and “waitperson” have always been in the dictionary.
	• Members of Congress have always had to keep their checkbooks  
balanced since the closing of the House Bank.
	• There has always been a computer in the Oval Office.
	• CDs have never been sold in cardboard packaging.
	• Avon has always been “calling” in a catalog.
	• NATO has always been looking for a role.
	• Two Koreas have always been members of the UN.
	• Official racial classifications in South Africa have always been  
outlawed.
	• The NBC Today Show has always been seen on weekends.
	• Vice presidents of the United States have always had real power.
	• Conflict in Northern Ireland has always been slowly winding down.
	• Migration of once independent media like radio, TV, videos and  
compact discs to the computer has never amazed them.
	• Nobody has ever responded to “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
	• Congress could never give itself a mid-term raise.
	• There has always been blue Jell-O.