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The Beloit College Mindset List releases a list every year that describes the lives of the students entering college in the fall of 2014. The way that the list describes the students’ lives is by describing norms that they have in their lives. This is a way for people of other generations to understand what the class of 2014 is all about. The list describes how our technology generation differs from past generations.
Some of the items on the list however depict the class of 2014 as inconsiderate and rather unintelligent. For instance when the list says, “few in the class know how to write cursive” this is completely untrue. We do not like to use cursive but if we had to we could write in it. I also don’t think that you can accurately say that everyone in the class of 2014 do or do not know how to write in cursive. A statement that Beloit Midlist addresses, “Al Gore has always been animated,” indicates that the class of 1014 has had no interest or knowledge in politics which is once again grouping all of the students into one way of thinking.
In this article I believe for most part was dead on about the class of 2014. I think that the majority of the items on the list accurately described how the class of 2014 lives and how we grew up. A statement on the list that I believe was the most like me was,” Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-sucker at Hemery High.” I have to admit that I myself do enjoy the vampire series, twilight, so it made me relate to the list more. This statement addresses how the craze for vampires has explode in our lifetime. It seems that every show and movie filmed have something to do with vampires. This is just one of the statements that address very accurately how our environment is like.
In this list I believe that it is a good representation of how our culture is different from past generations. This article really opens people from all generations and backgrounds to more clearly understand the different environments that everyone comes from. This list makes me want to understand past generations more and to look at past Beloit list from previous years. From the list compiled from Beloit I think it’s pretty clear that the 1014 generation is a pretty good generation to be living in.
