--Beloit College in Wisconsin just released its annual "Mindset List" for this year's crop of incoming college freshmen . . . the class of 2015. Most of them were born in 1993, so they shouldn't remember much before 1998 or 1999.
--Here are 13 highlights from this year's list of things today's college freshmen do or don't know . . . which will once again make you wonder if it's time to join the AARP.
#1.) They have no memory of the GEORGE BUSH presidency . . . meaning George H. W. Bush. In fact, they only have memories of the tail end of the CLINTON presidency.
#2.) Ferris Bueller is old enough to be their father.
#3.) "Amazon" makes them think of the website first, the river second. (--And, I'm guessing, the gorgeously gigantic women third.)
#4.) JOHN WAYNE BOBBITT has always been reattached, and O.J. SIMPSON has always been searching for the real killers.
#5.) MP3s have always been available to download, whether legally or illegally.
#6.) They've never seen the gigantic Sears catalog.
#7.) They have no memory of MICHAEL JORDAN on the Bulls.
#8.) They never saw "Cheers" on NBC.
#9.) Major League Baseball has never had fewer than six divisions, and has always had the wild card.
#10.) Their parents have told them stories about how they fought to get them a Tickle Me Elmo . . . when they were three.
#11.) Women have never been too old to have children.
#12.) They never saw the Soviet Union . . . to them, Russia has never had an official communist party.
#13.) The phrase "Don't touch that dial" on TV doesn't mean anything to them . . . their TVs never had dials.
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