The following list is created by Beloit from this year’s list of freshman perspectives:
- Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team.
- GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
- Coke and Pepsi have always used recycled plastic bottles.
- Electronic filing of tax returns has always been an option.
- They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.
- WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
- Films have never been X rated, only NC-17.
- Authorities have always been building a wall across the Mexican border.
- Students have always been “Rocking the Vote.”
- Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.
- Schools have always been concerned about multiculturalism.
- We have always known that “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”
- IBM has never made typewriters.
- There has always been Pearl Jam.
- Pee-Wee has never been in his playhouse during the day.
- Michael Milken has always been a philanthropist promoting prostate cancer research.
- Employers have always been able to do credit checks on employees.
- Personal privacy has always been threatened.
- Caller ID has always been available on phones.
- Iced tea has always come in cans and bottles.
- They have never known life without Seinfeld references from a show about “nothing.”
- The Hubble Space Telescope has always been eavesdropping on the heavens.
- Radio stations have never been required to present both sides of public issues.
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