this year's college freshmen

were born in 1989, the year I graduated from high school. Wow.

In order to help their professors, every year Beloit College puts together a profile ofincoming college Freshmen.The entire 70 point list can be found here, but here are some of the most disturbing or interesting for me:

• What Berlin wall?
• They never “rolled down” a car window.
• Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
• “Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.
• Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
• Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
• They were too young to understand Judas Priest’s subliminal messages.
• They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”
• Women’s studies majors have always been offered on campus.
• High definition television has always been available.
• Microbreweries have always been ubiquitous.
• Time has always worked with Warner.
• Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
• MTV has never featured music videos.
• The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
• Burma has always been Myanmar.
• Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.
• Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.