Class of 2011
Each year Beloit College releases a list of facts intended to help professors relate to the incoming class of college students. The Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2011 was recently released and, in honor of my first day teaching my very own class, I thought I'd pass along some of the more interesting tidbits about the first post-Cold War class.
1. What Berlin Wall?
2. Humvees have always been available to the public.
9. Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
10. Pete Rose has never played baseball.
15. Russia has always had a multi-party political system.
42. Women's studies majors have always been offered on campus.
43. Being a latchkey kid has never been a big deal.
53. Tianamen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
55. MTV has never featured music videos.
61. They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.