Mindset of College Freshman

The Beloit College Mindset List was first created by the Wisconsin college in 1998 to remind professors what cultural factors have gone into shaping the lives of their students.

This years list reflects the survey done of the Class of 2014, most of whom were born in 1992!!!!!

Here are some of the highlights:

- Beethoven has always been a big drooling dog, not a classical composer. Barney is a purple dinosaur, not a deputy sheriff in Mayberry.

- Bill Clinton was elected president the year most of them were born.

- Clint Eastwood is a sensitive Oscar-winning director, not a tough-as-nails detective known as Dirty Harry.

- The Post Office has always been going broke.

- Few in the class know how to write in cursive.

- A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.

- Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.

- The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.

- With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.

- Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.

- DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.

From:
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/08/18/college.mindset.list/?hpt=T2