Giving Thanks & Getting Old
By Scott McDonough, ENGL 490
Family, friends, food, and football are just a few of the many reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. Unless you’re in the Frostburg State University Class of 2016, however, there are just as many reasons to feel old. That’s because most first-year students attending FSU and other nationwide colleges were born around 1994. For FSU freshmen, Kurt Cobaine and Richard Nixon have always been dead; Amazon is where you go to find the best prices for online merchandise rather than a South American river; radios and cassette tapes are ancient relics of history; and History only refers to a television network.
Such references are only a few things in the
mindset of the Class of 2016 among 75 in total for the "Mindset List: 2016 List" of Beloit College. The Mindset List is an annual list compiled by the private liberal arts college in
Beloit, Wisconsin of the various values shaping the worldview of students just entering
college. Beginning in the fall of 1998 as a forwarded email passed from Beloit College's statistician Richard Miller to Public Affairs Director Ron Neif to
their peers, the Beloit College Mindset
List has since grown into to a widespread publication covered by such news
giants as Time Magazine and NBC Nightly News. For a humorous but
thought-provoking look at the generation gaps between the years, check out the Beloit College Mindset List.
Happy
Thanksgiving!
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