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23 August 2006

Time to feel old. Beloit College's annual Mindset list, this time for the class of 2010, is out. Most of this year's incoming freshmen were probably born in 1988.
1988? I have underwear older than that.

*bangs cane against coffee table, demanding poached vienna sausage. turns on Matlock*
posted by jonmc 23 August | 10:55
They have never actually dialled a telephone, either.
posted by dersins 23 August | 11:04
44. Retin-A has always made America look less wrinkled.

I thought Retin-A was used for acne.
posted by me3dia 23 August | 11:40
They have never actually dialled a telephone, either.

Well, at least one has: my niece is 18, and I know she's used dial phones.
posted by JanetLand 23 August | 11:47
1988?! Wow! I was a Sophomore in college!
posted by Joe Famous 23 August | 11:53
lol, Michael Jackson has always been white!
posted by pieisexactlythree 23 August | 12:49
Feeling Old, Mike Edition: In two weeks, my daughter will start elementary school at the same school my sister went to when we moved here, in 1992.
posted by mike9322 23 August | 12:53
Come to think of it, the last time I can recall using a rotary phone is 1996.
posted by pieisexactlythree 23 August | 12:59
I have a rotary phone.

They grew up pushing their own miniature shopping carts in the supermarket.

Yeah, kids just get more attention in the culture today. When I was a kid, it really seemed as though the world was about adults, and I couldn't wait to be an adult and get to use all of it. Now the world seems so organized around kids.

Here's an example. I see kids in town wearing these sneakers that have skate wheels embedded in them. Kids can make the skate wheels pop out and start gliding along, then go back to walking. Now, when I was a kid, we imagined shoes like that. But we knew there was no way the adult world was ever going to agree that there was a need for us to have them, let alone invent, manufacture, and market them.
posted by Miko 23 August | 14:22
I was just thinking about that today, Miko. Thinking about my friends with kids and how all their weekends and many of their weekdays are tailored around what the kids are doing, activities for the children.

The vast majority of my childhood was spent tagging behind adults as they did what they wanted to do. Playing with the other kids while the adults drank wine and played cards. etc.

kids these days...
posted by gaspode 23 August | 14:34
Here's where I say that Tom McBride was my advisor.

Before 1988.

Talk about mindsets ...
posted by stilicho 23 August | 15:57
I had been working at the same company I am now for six years in 1988. Egads.
posted by redvixen 23 August | 18:15
In 1988, I already had a two-year-old daughter.

*feels old*

The vast majority of my childhood was spent tagging behind adults as they did what they wanted to do.
Either that, or being told to just get out of the house and not come back until tea-time (now known as dinner-time). Which is the other thing that these kids have never known - a world safe enough to send your kids out into unsupervised.
posted by dg 23 August | 18:26
Either that, or being told to just get out of the house and not come back until tea-time (now known as dinner-time).

uh-huh. "I don't want to see your face until it's time to eat. Now go out and play". And we all took off on our bikes. Sans bike helmets, of course.
posted by gaspode 23 August | 18:30
If I did that now to my kids, I would be thrown in jail for child abuse. Times change, not always for the better.
posted by dg 23 August | 18:40
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