At the start of every academic year, college professors often have to be reminded that students would not remember events that did not take place in their lifetimes. They are given a list of freshman facts that will make most people feel old. Today's 18 year olds would have been born in 1988 and 1989. This is a list of fact about them that I came up with of the top of my head.
-"The Simpsons" have been on the air since they were babies
-Every president elected in their lifetimes has been named "Bush" or "Clinton".
-Kurt Cobain shot himself before they started kindergarten.
-Ayatollah Khomeini has been dead as long as they can remember.
-The first Stealth fighters were deployed before they were born.
-They do not remember when Iraq was a US ally.
-The Berlin Wall fell when they were still in the crib. The Soviet Union collapsed before they were potty trained.
-The "Madden Football" video game franchise has been around as long as they have been able to hold a controller.
-Prozac has always been available to them.
-DVDs hit the scene when they were in elementary school.
-9/11 occurred when they were in the 7th grade.
-Not only did they have computers in school, they had Mac and Windows PC's equipped with CD ROMs in kindergarten.
Now I feel old. I would go take some Prozac, but the Lorazapam works so much better.
ReplyDeleteIraq was a U. S. ally? Huh! How about that! (LOL!)