<p>So I ask here because you guys are younger than those on the College Life forum. I am college class of 2013 and I think half of this list is complete crap. It's supposed to be a snapshot of the mind of an 18 year old right now. You guys are younger so tell me if being only a few years younger than myself makes a huge difference. </p>
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1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.</p>
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<li><p>Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.</p></li>
<li><p>Go West, Young College Grad has always implied and dont stop until you get to Asia
and learn Chinese along the way.</p></li>
<li><p>Al Gore has always been animated.</p></li>
<li><p>Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.</p></li>
<li><p>Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.</p></li>
<li><p>Caramel macchiato and venti half-caf vanilla latte have always been street corner lingo.</p></li>
<li><p>With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.</p></li>
<li><p>Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyruss folks on Parents Weekend.</p></li>
<li><p>Entering college this fall in a country where a quarter of young people under 18 have at least one immigrant parent, they aren't afraid of immigration...unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet.</p></li>
<li><p>John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.</p></li>
<li><p>Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.</p></li>
<li><p>Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.</p></li>
<li><p>Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.</p></li>
<li><p>Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.</p></li>
<li><p>Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.</p></li>
<li><p>Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.</p></li>
<li><p>Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.</p></li>
<li><p>They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.</p></li>
<li><p>DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.</p></li>
<li><p>Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.</p></li>
<li><p>Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.</p></li>
<li><p>Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.</p></li>
<li><p>Cop Killer by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.</p></li>
<li><p>Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless they found one in their grandparents closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.</p></li>
<li><p>Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.</p></li>
<li><p>Theyve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.</p></li>
<li><p>Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.</p></li>
<li><p>Viewer Discretion has always been an available warning on TV shows.</p></li>
<li><p>The first home computer they probably touched was an Apple II or Mac II; they are now in a museum.</p></li>
<li><p>Czechoslovakia has never existed.</p></li>
<li><p>Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.</p></li>
<li><p>Assisted Living has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always offered an alternative to the hospital.</p></li>
<li><p>Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.</p></li>
<li><p>Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.</p></li>
<li><p>Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an Annus Horribilis.</p></li>
<li><p>Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.</p></li>
<li><p>Pizza jockeys from Dominos have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.</p></li>
<li><p>There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.</p></li>
<li><p>American companies have always done business in Vietnam.</p></li>
<li><p>Potato has always ended in an e in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.</p></li>
<li><p>Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.</p></li>
<li><p>The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.</p></li>
<li><p>They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.</p></li>
<li><p>Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.</p></li>
<li><p>Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.</p></li>
<li><p>Someone has always gotten married in space.</p></li>
<li><p>While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.</p></li>
<li><p>Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.</p></li>
<li><p>Food has always been irradiated.</p></li>
<li><p>There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.</p></li>
<li><p>J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasnt he? </p></li>
<li><p>The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.</p></li>
<li><p>Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.</p></li>
<li><p>They may have assumed that parents complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.</p></li>
<li><p>A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife. </p></li>
<li><p>Beethoven has always been a good name for a dog.</p></li>
<li><p>By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Colas new Tab Clear, it was gone.</p></li>
<li><p>Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.</p></li>
<li><p>Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies withholding tax, or else.</p></li>
<li><p>Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine. </p></li>
<li><p>Their parents favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.</p></li>
<li><p>The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.</p></li>
<li><p>They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.</p></li>
<li><p>Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.</p></li>
<li><p>Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.</p></li>
<li><p>They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.</p></li>
<li><p>It seems the Post Office has always been going broke.</p></li>
<li><p>The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.</p></li>
<li><p>The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.</p></li>
<li><p>One way or another, Its the economy, stupid and always has been.</p></li>
<li><p>Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.</p></li>
<li><p>They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi (SYFY) Channel.</p></li>
<li><p>Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.
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