Beloit College has once again posted its list with characteristics of their incoming class. From the introduction:
This year’s entering college class of 2015 was born just as the Internet took everyone onto the information highway and as Amazon began its relentless flow of books and everything else into their lives. Members of this year’s freshman class, most of them born in 1993, are the first generation to grow up taking the word “online” for granted and for whom crossing the digital divide has redefined research, original sources and access to information, changing the central experiences and methods in their lives. They have come of age as women assumed command of U.S. Navy ships, altar girls served routinely at Catholic Mass, and when everything from parents analyzing childhood maladies to their breaking up with boyfriends and girlfriends, sometimes quite publicly, have been accomplished on the Internet.
A blogger at Millennial Lemons thinks that "The Beloit College 'Mindset List' Gets Millennials Wrong." What do you think?
Me? I'm drawn to Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book:
an authentic reproduction of the original cookbook first published in 1950. Every word, every recipe, every photo and illustration is exactly as it appeared in the 1950 bestseller.
This looks fun too: As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s.
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