Okay....maybe that's not quite right, but this year's college freshmen has never lived in a world where Kurt Cobain was alive or an NFL team played its home games in Los Angeles.
The Class of 2016 watches television everywhere except on actual TV sets and is addicted to "electronic narcotics."
Every year a private school in southeastern Wisconsin releases the Beloit College Mindset List-- meant to remind teachers that college freshmen, born mostly in 1994, see the world in a much different way.
The new generation gets a lot of its news from Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." But if they miss an episode, they can always get instant news from YouTube (No. 5 on the list).
Here are some other items to make you feel old: These teens weren't born when "Pulp Fiction" came out.
Gene therapy has always been available, and they don't waste time with outdated technologies like point-and-shoot cameras.


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