THE (Partial) MINDSET LIST

FOR THE CLASS OF 2016

For this generation of entering college students, born in 1994, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead.

1. They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of  "electronic narcotics.
2. Robert DeNiro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.
3. Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge.
4. They have never seen an airplane "ticket".
5. They can't picture people actually carrying luggage through airports rather rolling it.
6. Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.
7. Gene therapy has always been an available treatment.
8. Before they purchase an assigned textbook, they will investigate whether it is available for rent or purchase as an e-book.
9. They watch television everywhere but on a television.
10. Thousands have always been gathering for "million-man" demonstrations in Washington, D.C.