Incoming college freshmen this fall

[Recursion]

Were at most 1 year old when 9/11 happened.

Were mostly born the year that the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movie franchises began.

Were 7 or 8 when the Marvel Comics Universe movies began.

Were born at the midpoint between the premier of "Fraggle Rock" and the present day.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Want to know what the new frosh have never experienced? Or have always known? Want to feel old?

Mindset List 2018
Want to know what the new frosh have never experienced? Or have always known? Want to feel old? It's that time of year again.
....

• The words "veritas" and "horizon" have always been joined together to form Verizon.
• They will never fly TWA, Swissair or Sabena airlines.
• The Tower of Pisa has always had a prop to keep it leaning.
• There has never been an Enron.
• The Prius has always been on the road in the U.S.
• British retail sales have always been organized in metrics, except for beer, still sold by the imperial pint.
• They never used a spit bowl in a dentist’s office.
• They have never seen a cross-town World Series.
• There has always been a Survivor.
• "You've got mail" would sound as ancient to them as "number, please" would have sounded to their parents.
....

[underpants]

2. I did NOT know that's where Verizon came from

According to my math this is the last high school class (assuming 18 years old) who were alive when “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released in 1991.

[NewJeffCT]

4. That was 29 years ago

for Smells Like Teen Spirit?

[underpants]

5. Wow my math is not strong today

[NewJeffCT]

6. One of those times I really felt old

was when I saw an "all grown up" picture of Frances Bean Cobain. I had only remembered her as a baby in a picture in her father's arms... and, then she was suddenly a 19 or 20 year old model or something like that. Made me feel old, and that was several years ago (just googled her and she's 26 now)

[NewJeffCT]

3. the boy giving the graduation speech at my daughter's high school

was going to talk about the 10 year history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and compare/contrast it to his own life, but he decided it was too long after Endgame came out and re-did it the night before graduation.

(My daughter is going to be a senior, but went to see her senior friends graduate)

[gratuitous]

7. The United States has been at war for their entire lives

They have no personal memory of a time when the United States was not occupying Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Recursion]

8. Yeah

Of all of these, that breaks my heart