DevilAlumna
08-22-2007, 04:24 PM
This is one of my favorite "Back to School" rituals -- reading about the mindset of incoming college freshmen. (Even if it does make me feel ANCIENT at 32.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20378610/
A few choice items for this group, primarily born in 1989:
1. What Berlin wall?
6. They may confuse the Keating Five with a rock group.
23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
60. They will encounter roughly equal numbers of female and male professors in the classroom.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20378610/
A few choice items for this group, primarily born in 1989:
1. What Berlin wall?
6. They may confuse the Keating Five with a rock group.
23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
60. They will encounter roughly equal numbers of female and male professors in the classroom.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.