On The Lighter Side

Today, the “Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014” was in the news and I looking trough it made me feel so old. Here are some of the items that made me feel old…

12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
This was my top “feel old” item from the list. I remember all of those “Spaghetti” westerns that he was in and how their voices were not in-sync with their lips.

8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
This one is good, maybe someday in the future, students will only know of marriage equality and all trans-people are treated as equals.

10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves “real” aliens from another planet.
Another good one, maybe someday we will be welcoming to all immigrants, not just the “white skin” immigrants.

19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
This one really made me feel old.

26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
I have a whole drawer full of slides. Someday, kids will marvel on film cameras.

31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
This one really hurt, I have one in my basement and it still works!

43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
Another good thing. I remember “Duck and Cover”…


55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
Thank you President Clinton.

65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
Not good.