Article submitted by Melissa Depper and Monica Owens, Youth ASTs.
Since 2002, Beloit College has published a list of "cultural touchstones" pertaining to the incoming class of freshman that colleges will be welcoming in this school year. This resource, dubbed the Mindset List, provides insight to the life experience of coming generations that will shape their approaches, viewpoints and interests, ultimately affecting their future contribution to our society.
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php
Looking over the list, what do you think are the most significantly affecting components of this generations' personal/social circumstance? Do you see details that parallel or differ from your own experience starting college and/or approaching adult life?
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Thanks for posting this! I always like reading Beloit's list. The reason why I know of this college is that I considered going there. It was one of 11 schools that I applied to (and got accepted to).
The thing that strikes me is how much can change even in a short period of time. These teens (well, they're officially adults now) are only 6 years younger than I am, and yet we had a completely different experience growing up.
Oh, and I re-read what Beloit had to say about my class, and it was very enlightening. =)
I was trying to tell my son about how interesting this list is as I was driving him up to college last week. Then it hit me that he is exactly who this list is about so of course he could not relate to why I found some of these things so amazing. D'oh!
~Monica
Amusing, but not profound or enlightening. I feel the same way about the 2012 list as I do when I see something I used as a girl for sale in an antique store--a metal Mary Poppins lunch box, for example, or a Fisher-Price toy telephone with a cord long enough to strangle a small child--like it's not old enough to be antique, like recent history is not ancient enough to be Amazing yet.
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