Tuesday, August 19, 2008

College Mindset List

From the Associated Press:

AP - MILWAUKEE - Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world — where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.

The incoming freshmen, born mostly in 1990, also grew up knowing only Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show."


Those are some of the 60 cultural landmarks on the Beloit College Mindset List, an annual compilation that offers a glimpse of the world as seen through the eyes of each incoming class. This year's list is being released Tuesday by the private school of 1,300 near the Wisconsin-Illinois state line.The school started producing the list in 1998 to remind professors that references familiar to them might draw blank stares from their students.

Want to check out the "College Mindset" list? Click here.

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