Last week, the 10th annual Mindset List for the Class of 2012 was released by Beloit College’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief. The list reminds everyone of the events shaping the lives of this year’s college freshmen, most of whom were born in 1990.
Highlights from the 60-item list include:
- GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
- Coke and Pepsi have always used recycled plastic bottles.
- Schools have always been concerned about multiculturalism.
- College grads have always been able to Teach for America.
- IBM has never made typewriters.
- They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.
- Personal privacy has always been threatened.
- Caller ID has always been available on phones.
- Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.
For the complete list visit Beloit College Mindset List.
