Beloit College Mindset List

Do you want to know what the incoming class of college freshmen take for granted? The YALSA blog I subscribe to linked to a fun “mindset list” from Beloit College, “cultural touchstones that shape the lives” of the students leaving for college this month and next.  For fun, I went over the list with some teens. Here are the some they enjoyed most:

• They never heard an attendant ask “Want me to check under the hood?”
• Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team.
• WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
• Students always had Goosebumps.
• The Hubble Space Telescope has always been eavesdropping on the heavens.
• Students have always been “Rocking the Vote.”
• They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.

Words Without Borders

This terrific site hosted by Bard College posts new material every month: Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature.