Comments on: Entering College Students http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Fence http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504555 Fence Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:42:24 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504555 I just looked at the actual Beloit list and it looks like the people who came up with it don't know the difference between 1996 and 2008 either . . . I just looked at the actual Beloit list and it looks like the people who came up with it don't know the difference between 1996 and 2008 either . . .

]]> By: Fence http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504519 Fence Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:17:51 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504519 <blockquote>come on, what has changed significantly since 1996, aside from maybe the sound of a dial-up modem falling silent?</blockquote> Are you kidding? Pervasive cell phones Tivo 9-11 $3+ gas Chicken pox vaccine Google searches Global warming ipods lasik Record stores gone EBay Amazon Mapquest YouTube Reality shows video-on-demand Blackberries E-mail at work China VoIP West Virginia's political alignment Wi-fi Starbucks Euro AIDS cocktail EZ-Pass GPS DVD players built into cars

come on, what has changed significantly since 1996, aside from maybe the sound of a dial-up modem falling silent?

Are you kidding?

Pervasive cell phones
Tivo
9-11
$3+ gas
Chicken pox vaccine
Google searches
Global warming
ipods
lasik
Record stores gone
EBay
Amazon
Mapquest
YouTube
Reality shows
video-on-demand
Blackberries
E-mail at work
China
VoIP
West Virginia's political alignment
Wi-fi
Starbucks
Euro
AIDS cocktail
EZ-Pass
GPS
DVD players built into cars

]]> By: Brian J http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504454 Brian J Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:30:10 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504454 I think these lists will become more difficult in the coming years because pop culture has flattened. We don't have that big of a change between decades as we did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I mean, come on, what has changed significantly since 1996, aside from maybe the sound of a dial-up modem falling silent? I think these lists will become more difficult in the coming years because pop culture has flattened. We don't have that big of a change between decades as we did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I mean, come on, what has changed significantly since 1996, aside from maybe the sound of a dial-up modem falling silent?

]]> By: Fence http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504387 Fence Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:43:52 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504387 The dividing lines are easy. You are a Millennial rather than Gen X if you got your first email address before your drivers license. You are a boomer and not Gen X if you think the greatest movie of all time is something other than Star Wars. The dividing lines are easy. You are a Millennial rather than Gen X if you got your first email address before your drivers license. You are a boomer and not Gen X if you think the greatest movie of all time is something other than Star Wars.

]]> By: fester http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504325 fester Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:48:37 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504325 Gas has never been cheap for their driving lives... MTV is all about (bad) reality shows.... And on a side note, with the students back and 30,000 of them packed into 1.5 square miles during the day and drinking hours, a bunch of good restaurants are now off limits again :( Gas has never been cheap for their driving lives...

MTV is all about (bad) reality shows....

And on a side note, with the students back and 30,000 of them packed into 1.5 square miles during the day and drinking hours, a bunch of good restaurants are now off limits again :(

]]> By: John Burgess http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504117 John Burgess Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:43:32 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504117 William d'Inger: That one is very scary. William d'Inger: That one is very scary.

]]> By: William d'Inger http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-504047 William d'Inger Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:23:49 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-504047 The first Star Trek TV episode is as old to today's college entrants as the end of WWI (World War <strong>ONE</strong>) was to my generation. The first Star Trek TV episode is as old to today's college entrants as the end of WWI (World War ONE) was to my generation.

]]> By: Caliban Darklock http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/entering_college_students/comment-page-1/#comment-503903 Caliban Darklock Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:31:24 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24895#comment-503903 The Republican party and the Democratic party have always looked pretty much equally blind, ignorant, and crazy. The Republican party and the Democratic party have always looked pretty much equally blind, ignorant, and crazy.

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