Comments on: The class of 2008 2009

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:41:50 +0000

They never saw the Challenger fly.

Wow. That’s sobering. Seems like yesterday…

By: Christy

Christy — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:29:32 +0000

Don’t be too worried. I graduated in 2002 (and am currently 25) and the list for my year is almost entirely untrue. Perhaps the more recent lists are also less than factual.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:24:44 +0000

Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose?

I’m only 28 and a lot of this list scares me. I was talking to someone this weekend who was 10 years younger than me, and I realized their educational landscape was completely different to mine. They grew up with the internet while I waited until college and even then had to use Lynx as my browser. Does anyone else feel so distanced from people who are 10 years younger than them?

By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:11:03 +0000

I love this list. Every year, it scares me more and more. I used to have a website dedicated to the ’80s, and the people that would e-mail me got younger and younger every year. From “Hey, I was in high school in the ’80s!” to “Hey, I was born in 1980!” to “I was born in 1989!”

The first e-mail I got from someone born in the ’90s reminded me to live in the now.

Thanks for sharing Bren!

By: ivan

ivan — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:09:38 +0000

mm..and the tv in my room still has a bunny type antenna which I have to move to catch signal and see the simpsons. :|

By: tully monster

tully monster — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:32:37 +0000

I honestly couldn’t care less that Entertainment Weekly has always been on the newsstand for these students. But I guess that’s a somber harbinger of #75:

>They have always been challenged to distinguish between news and entertainment on cable TV.

…and a sign of a serious generation gap.

–tully monster, from whose perspective humans had always walked on the moon

By: enrevanche

enrevanche — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:41:30 +0000

Class of 2009 Mindset

Every year, Beloit College publishes the Beloit College Mindset List, offering a snapshot of the worldview of their incoming freshman class.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:29:37 +0000

The class entering college this fall is the class of 2009.

By: laurence haughton

laurence haughton — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:04:45 +0000

This is a great way to remember that our stories can sound so dated when we don’t freshen our examples and pick out some new metaphors.
I remember a guy at a workshop making (what he thought) was a funny observation based on something Archie Bunker said. Half the room just looked lost. “Who is this Bunker guy,” they wondered.
It made the workshop sound like “lame storytime with Grandpa.”