WASHINGTON 鈥斅營t鈥檚 that time of year again: your annual chance to feel very, very old (besides your birthday, that is).
Beloit College has released their annual , which takes a look at things that incoming college freshmen have always had in their lives.
Most incoming freshmen were born in 1997, which means that in their lifetimes:
- They have never licked a postage stamp;
- Hybrid cars have always been mass-produced;
- They have never known a world without Google, 鈥淪outh Park鈥� or Harry Potter books;
- They have also never known a world with The Notorious B.I.G., Princess Diana, Jacques Cousteau or Mother Teresa;
- 鈥淭he Lion King鈥� has always been on Broadway;
- There has always been at least one place where medical marijuana was legal;
- And Paul McCartney and Elton John have always been knights.
The three say their purpose is to make people who don鈥檛 yet realize they鈥檙e old completely miserable. No, wait 鈥� it鈥檚 to remind their faculty colleagues to be careful about making cultural references their students won鈥檛 get.
Such as referring to the turn of the century; they may well ask, 鈥淲hich one?鈥�
