Starbucks and digital cameras, but no Challenger
Every year, Beloit College releases a list intended to help professors relate to the incoming class of students. The Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2009 was released today, and I thought I'd send along some of the more disturbing facts.
1) Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead.
5) Boston has been working on the "The Big Dig" all their lives.
7) Pay-Per-View television has always been an option.
16) Voice mail has always been available.
18) The federal budget has always been more than a trillion dollars.
19) Condoms have always been advertised on television.
22) Starbucks has always been on every corner.
26) Dirty dancing has always been acceptable.
30) Pixar has always existed.
37) They have grown up in a single superpower world.
44) RU486, the "morning after pill," has always been on the market.
54) They never saw the shuttle Challenger fly.
58) They never saw Pat Sajak or Arsenio Hall host a late night television show.
61) Digital cameras have always existed.
64) CNBC has always been on the air.
70) Jimmy Carter has always been an elder statesman.