Site of the Day for Friday, October 7, 2016
Beloit College Mindset List
Today's site offers one of the annual treats of the new academic year, the
always amusing Mindset List from Wisconsin's liberal arts Beloit College.
Gentle Subscribers will find the latest list both entertaining and enlightening
as it reveals the perspective of the newly minted freshmen of the class of 2020.
"Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset
List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of
students about to enter college. ... This fall's entering college students ...
were born in 1998 and cannot remember a time when they had to wait for
anything. They also can't recall a time when the United States was not at war,
or when someone named Bush or Clinton was not running for office." - from the
website
This year's Mindset List spotlights 60 items which comprise its carefully
winnowed selections of cultural relevance for these students. From regarding
cloning as a routine laboratory process to always being able to buy airline
tickets online, this age cohort wears a "right now" label. Included in that
characterization is the tendency to ignore emails in favor of texts and to
watch programs on demand rather than as scheduled by a network. The homepage
provides a link to previous lists going back to the class of 2002.
Pop over to the site to enjoy the quirks and viewpoints of the latest intake of
college students at:
https://www.beloit.edu/mindset/
A.M. Holm
Comments? Suggestions? amholm@xxxxxxxxxxx
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