The College Mindset List: What Do Freshmen Know?

Imagine a world where Pokemon has always existed, Amazon was always a retail shopping choice, and Bill Clinton's official title has been "Hillary Clinton's husband."

That's what the mindset of a typical student entering college this fall is like.

Each year since 1998, Beloit College puts out "The College Mindset List," a list of facts that outlines what the world perspective is like for traditional-aged college students.

Here are some of our favorites from the list:

• They are the last class to be born in the 1900s, the last of the Millennials --  enter next year, on cue, Generation Z!
• Amazon has always invited consumers to follow the arrow from A to Z.
• They have always been searching for Pokemon.
• Dora the Explorer and her pet monkey Boots helped to set them on the course of discovery.
• By the time they entered school, laptops were outselling desktops.
• Whatever the subject, there’s always been a blog for it.
• Justin Timberlake has always been a solo act.
• In their lifetimes, Blackberry has gone from being a wild fruit to being a communications device to becoming a wild fruit again.
• Bill Clinton has always been Hillary Clinton’s aging husband.

(Source: Beloit College)

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