College Freshman Mindset List

[ladypage]

I came across this earlier: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/

It's a mindset list for college freshman this year, assuming that most of them were born in 1994.

Here are the first ten:

For this generation of entering college students, born in 1994, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead.

They should keep their eyes open for Justin Bieber or Dakota Fanning at freshman orientation.

They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of “electronic narcotics.”

The Biblical sources of terms such as “Forbidden Fruit,” “The writing on the wall,” “Good Samaritan,” and “The Promised Land” are unknown to most of them.

Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes “American Royalty.”

If they miss The Daily Show, they can always get their news on YouTube.

Their lives have been measured in the fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds.

Robert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.

Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge.

They have never seen an airplane “ticket.”

On TV and in films, the ditzy dumb blonde female generally has been replaced by a couple of Dumb and Dumber males.

You can read the next 65 for yourself.

What do you think?

Personally, I find it interesting, but also somewhat... condescending? If it was meant to be humorous maybe I would read it differently, but it just doesn't read that way to me, so the tone seems a little haughty. Maybe that's just me though.

 

[DVCLiz]

I came across this earlier: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/

It's a mindset list for college freshman this year, assuming that most of them were born in 1994.

Here are the first ten:



You can read the next 65 for yourself.

What do you think?

Personally, I find it interesting, but also somewhat... condescending? If it was meant to be humorous maybe I would read it differently, but it just doesn't read that way to me, so the tone seems a little haughty. Maybe that's just me though.

This is a list that's been prepared every year. It's meant to show how the current generation has a specific world view based on the types of experiences they have had. It also helps marketing people market their products more effectively.

It isn't condescending at all.

 

[jbcheerchick93]

I'm a college freshman this year and I agree with some, disagree with a few, and have no idea what half are talking about

I also read last years' list and that one had a lot more I could relate to, but it seems like a majority of the items on the list are just facts..not actual ideas or ways of thinking.

 

[johnsontrio]

Seems to me that what would be more helpful would be college administration and faculty to get in touch with the way college students live. One example: DD attended her Convocation for her Sophomore Nursing school class today. There are around 105 students in her class. The faculty scheduled the woman that makes the name badges the students wear the in clinical setting to come today to take the orders. The students were not told this was occurring today and enough of them, my DD included, did not have the $5 cash needed to place the order. The woman has been rescheduled.

My 80 yo DM was here when DD was telling this story. She retired 3 years ago from teaching at the university level. She knew the outcome of the story before DD even finished because she knows kids that age don't carry cash.

 

[ladypage]

This is a list that's been prepared every year. It's meant to show how the current generation has a specific world view based on the types of experiences they have had. It also helps marketing people market their products more effectively.

It isn't condescending at all.

I understand that, and they've been making that list since, what 1994 I think it was? It just seems that a lot are off base, and perhaps shows how they may also be the ones who need to get more in touch with the generation as well.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I was just saddened that it didn't go back far enough for me to judge how accurate it was when I started college.

 

[mdsoccermom]

I understand that, and they've been making that list since, what 1994 I think it was? It just seems that a lot are off base, and perhaps shows how they may also be the ones who need to get more in touch with the generation as well.

Exactly what's off base?

 

[ckay87]

I came across this earlier: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/

It's a mindset list for college freshman this year, assuming that most of them were born in 1994.

Here are the first ten:



You can read the next 65 for yourself.

What do you think?

Personally, I find it interesting, but also somewhat... condescending? If it was meant to be humorous maybe I would read it differently, but it just doesn't read that way to me, so the tone seems a little haughty. Maybe that's just me though.

I kind of agree with you. I always enjoy this list, but this one seems less fact-based and more opinion-based. Things like "...addicted to a new generation of electronic narcotics,” and especially "Their lives have been measured in the fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds."

And I didn't get the one about biblical terms. Is that a generalization that this generation is less familiar with the bible? Making generalizations like that makes the list less interesting.

 

[MichelleVW]

I kind of agree with you. I always enjoy this list, but this one seems less fact-based and more opinion-based. Things like "...addicted to a new generation of electronic narcotics,” and especially "Their lives have been measured in the fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds."

And I didn't get the one about biblical terms. Is that a generalization that this generation is less familiar with the bible? Making generalizations like that makes the list less interesting.

Yeah...that is the one that bothered me.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Exactly what's off base?

A lot of it. Sounds like someone in their 40's wrote it.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

That was interesting- Thank you!