{"id":3703,"date":"2015-02-06T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2015-02-06T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T09:26:15","slug":"the-mindset-list-for-the-class-of-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"The Mindset List for the Class of 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloit.edu\/mindset\/\">Beloit College<\/a> prepares a list for it&#8217;s faculty to remind them how different the world the incoming freshmen were raised in is from the world they were raised in.  The lists are always interesting.  Here&#8217;s the list for the Class of 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Most of this year&#8217;s students entering college were born in 1981.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are the first generation to be born into Luvs, Huggies, and Pampers.<\/li>\n<li>John Lennon and John Belushi have always been dead.<\/li>\n<li>There has always been a woman on the Supreme Court, and women have always been traveling into space.<\/li>\n<li>They have never needed a prescription to buy ibuprofen.<\/li>\n<li>They never realized that for one brief moment, Gen. Alexander Haig was &#8220;in charge.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They never heard Walter Cronkite suggest that &#8220;That&#8217;s the way it is.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They were born and grew up with Microsoft, IBM PCs, in-line skates, NutraSweet, fax machines, film on disks, and unregulated quantities of commercial interruptions on television.<\/li>\n<li>Somebody named Dole has always been running for something.<\/li>\n<li>Cats has been on Broadway all their lives.<\/li>\n<li>While they all know her children, they have no idea who &#8220;Ma Bell&#8221; was.<\/li>\n<li>They never heard anyone say, &#8220;Book \u2018em, Dano,&#8221; &#8220;Good night, John-boy,&#8221; or &#8220;Kiss my grits,&#8221; in prime time.<\/li>\n<li>They never knew Madonna when she was like a virgin.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Myers is the Spy Who Shagged Me not the first congressman expelled from that body in a century for his role in &#8220;Abscam.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They have never had to worry about the packaging of Tylenol.<\/li>\n<li>Yugoslavia has never existed.<\/li>\n<li>They have never seen Bob Marley perform reggae live.<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Jackson has always been getting someone out of trouble someplace.<\/li>\n<li>Strikes by highly paid athletes have been a routine part of professional athletics.<\/li>\n<li>The moonwalk is a Michael Jackson dance step, not a Neil Armstrong giant step.<\/li>\n<li>John Cougar has always been John Cougar Mellencamp, or vice versa.<\/li>\n<li>Travel to space has always been accomplished in reusable spacecraft.<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;adult&#8221; has increasingly come to mean &#8220;dirty.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The year they were born, reports condemned violence on television and in Hollywood films for producing the likes of John Hinckley.<\/li>\n<li>They have always been able to get their news from USA Today and CNN.<\/li>\n<li>They have spent more than half their lives with Bart Simpson.<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t understand why Solidarity is spelled with a capital &#8220;S.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t think there is anything terribly futuristic about 2001, and were never concerned about the year 1984.<\/li>\n<li>They have no idea how big a breadbox is.<\/li>\n<li>Camelot refers to King Arthur&#8217;s seat of government, not John Kennedy&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>President Kennedy&#8217;s assassination is as significant to them as that of Lincoln or Garfield.<\/li>\n<li>They have probably never dialed a phone or opened an icebox.<\/li>\n<li>The only thing a &#8220;churchkey&#8221; has ever opened for them is a church.<\/li>\n<li>They have never seen white smoke over the Vatican and do not know its significance.<\/li>\n<li>They cannot identify the last United States President to throw-up on a Japanese prime minister.<\/li>\n<li>Ketchup has always been a vegetable.<\/li>\n<li>Susan B. Anthony has always been on the dollar but probably never bought them anything.<\/li>\n<li>They cannot imagine waiting a generation to get the dirt on the U.S. President.<\/li>\n<li>They felt pretty special when their elementary school had top-of-the-line Commodore 64s.<\/li>\n<li>ET, Gremlins, and The Hulk provided their Halloween costumes and lunch box themes.<\/li>\n<li>They were introduced to Kramer on the TV show Friday&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>They remember when Saturday Night Live was still funny.<\/li>\n<li>They have never seen a BankAmericard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all fairness to this latest generation of entering college students, we this year add a list of items that only a child of the &#8217;80s can explain&#8230;don&#8217;t ask us!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They owned and operated a &#8220;trapper keeper.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They can explain the &#8220;cha-ching&#8221; thing.<\/li>\n<li>They know what a &#8220;burnout&#8221; is.<\/li>\n<li>They know what &#8220;psych&#8221; means.<\/li>\n<li>During time in the arcade, they actually lined up quarters on the top panel of the game to &#8220;reserve&#8221; a spot.<\/li>\n<li>They know the profound meaning of &#8220;Wax on, Wax off.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They know that another name for a keyboard is a &#8220;synthesizer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They can name at least half of the members of the elite &#8220;Brat Pack.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They know who Tina Yothers is.<\/li>\n<li>They felt ashamed when Rob Lowe got in trouble for having sex with minors and videotaping it, because they liked him.<\/li>\n<li>They know who Max Headroom is.<\/li>\n<li>They could breakdance, or wished they could.<\/li>\n<li>Partying &#8220;like it&#8217;s 1999&#8221; seemed SOOO far away.<\/li>\n<li>They thought that &#8220;transformers&#8221; were more than meets the eye.<\/LI><\/P<\/>\n<li>They can, right now, hum the theme to Inspector Gadget.<\/li>\n<li>They wanted to be on Star Search.<\/li>\n<li>They can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.<\/li>\n<li>They wore banana clips at some point during their youth, or knew someone who did.<\/li>\n<li>They owned a doll with &#8220;Xavier Roberts&#8221; signed on its rear, or knew someone who did.<\/li>\n<li>They knew what Willis was &#8220;talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>They HAD to have their MTV.<\/li>\n<li>They hold a special place in their hearts for Back to the Future.<\/li>\n<li>They thought Molly Ringwald was REALLY cool.<\/li>\n<li>They actually thought Dirty Dancing was a REALLY good movie.<\/li>\n<li>They collected Garbage Pail Kids.<\/li>\n<li>They actually saw Ted Danson as the MacDaddy he played &#8220;Sam&#8221; to be.<\/li>\n<li>They remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system.<\/li>\n<li>They own(ed) cassette singles.<\/li>\n<li>They were led to believe that, in the year 2000, we&#8217;d all be living on the moon.<\/li>\n<li>They owned pieces of the Care Bear Glass collection from Pizza Hut.<\/li>\n<li>Poltergeist freaked them out.<\/li>\n<li>They have occasionally pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf.<\/li>\n<li>They know what a Doozer is.<\/li>\n<li>They wore bike shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish, or knew someone who did.<\/li>\n<li>They had Swatch Watches.<\/li>\n<li>They had WonderWoman or Superman underoos.<\/li>\n<li>They know what a &#8220;Whammee&#8221; is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Beloit College prepares a list for it&#8217;s faculty to remind them how different the world the incoming freshmen were raised in is from the world they were raised in. The lists are always interesting. Here&#8217;s the list for the Class of 2003. Most of this year&#8217;s students entering college were born in 1981. 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