Boy do I feel old!

Each year Beloit College puts out a list about the mindset of college freshman listing things that have (or haven’t)influenced their lives. When I was a college freshman in 1994, email and the Internet was just beginning to make their presence known in the college world. Wired dorms were cutting edge and email accounts were just becoming vogue. Now it’s so commonplace, universities don’t even mention it.

Consider the class of 2012 which has grown up in a world of digital communication and rapid-fire access to information.  The digital family lifestyle is the way it is and always has been.

• Born around 1990, for these students, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddy Krueger have always been dead.
• They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.
• Students have always been “Rocking the Vote.”
• Pee-Wee has never been in his playhouse during the day.
• Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.
• more

Or view a webcast of the authors of the list talking about the list and what it means about the students entering colleges this year.