2001 Version

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today..........

February 18, 2002

Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen who were born in 1983.

Here's this year's (2001) list:

• They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
• Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
• Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
• The CD was introduced the year they were born.
• They have always had an answering machine.
• They have always had cable.
• They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
• Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
• Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
• They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
• They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
• They never heard: "Where's the Beef?",
• "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".
• They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.
• Michael Jackson has always been white.
• McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
• They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Do you feel old yet? Pass this on to the other old fogies in your life.