The Beloit Incoming Freshman list

[DevilAlumna]

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.

[aimo]

I flew Eastern Airlines in December 1990 from Atlanta to RDU.