Beloit College’s Mindset List for the Class of 2019 Proves You Are Old

The Mindset List, which was conceptualized at Beloit College in 1998, is an annual list that has been around for almost two decades and reminds us over the age of 30 just exactly how old we are as we look through the eyes of first year college students!

This year’s list focuses on the Class of 2019, where the majority of students attending college for the fist time were born in or around 1997, and have grown up in a world where legendary figures including Princess Diana, Notorious B.I.G., Jacques Cousteau, and Mother Teresa. have always been dead.

Below is the first seven on Beloit College’s Mindset List for the Class of 2019. To read the entire list click here.

1. Hybrid automobiles have always been mass produced.

2. Google has always been there, in its founding words, “to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.”

3. They have never licked a postage stamp.

4. Email has become the new “formal” communication, while texts and tweets remain enclaves for the casual.

5. Four foul-mouthed kids have always been playing in South Park.

6. Hong Kong has always been under Chinese rule.

7. They have grown up treating Wi-Fi as an entitlement.

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