Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin puts together a list to try to give the Faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshman. Here is this year's list:

• The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1982. 

• They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot. 

• They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged. Black Monday, 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression. 

• There has been only one Pope.

• They were 11 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War. 

• They have never feared a nuclear war. 

• They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up. 

• Tianamen Square means nothing to them. 

• Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

• Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.

• The expression "you sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.

• They have never owned a record player. 

• They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.

• They may have never heard of an 8 track. The Compact Disc was introduced when they were 1 year old. 

• As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 33 cents. 

• They have always had an answering machine.  

• Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black and white TV. They have always had cable.

• There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA was.

• They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

• They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is, or know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.

Feeling old Yet? There's more: 

• They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.

• Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

• Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

• They have never seen Larry Bird play.

• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

• The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as WWI, WWII and the Civil War. 

• They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.

• They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
  They don't know who Mork was or where he was from. 

• They never heard: "Where's the beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "De plane, de plane!". 

• They do not care who shot J.R. and have no idea who J.R.was. 

• The Titanic was found? They thought we always knew where it was

• Michael Jackson has always been white. 

• Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not rock bands.

• There has always been MTV. 

• They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
  
  Do you feel old yet?
  
  Pass this on to the other oldies but don't send it back to me, I feel old enough!