While reading the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 I found myself nodding and laughing at certain things that are truthfully just what we have been brought up knowing as kids in our generation. I also found myself disagreeing with some of the things that are supposedly what we believe in and thats all there is to it. I agree with a lot of the statements, disagreed with a few, and felt indifferent about others. I think it is cool how this group of people decided to start this website with facts that are the overall belief by many kids our age going in to college now.
One of my favorite statements said was that "Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail". I like this because it is true most kids don't get on and email their friends on any given day. We use email a lot here to stay in contact with our teachers and fellow classmates, but if you want to get into contact with friends facebook and cell phones have taken over that need. A majority of students have facebook, cell phones, or both to keep in contact with any of their friend almost immediately with the help of IPods and IPhones. Also the only time students use snail mail is usually when their parents or relatives send them something. This is one of the statements I most agreed with in this writing.
Another one of the statements I agreed with was "Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause". I agree with this because even if people don't know what the color of ribbon means they normally associate it with some kind of cause or at least I do. I have grown up learning many different colors of these ribbons as people I know have been affected by them. I personally love these because it is a way of showing your support without being over the top in some instances. I like the idea of them and I hope that people respect their meanings.
One of the statements I wasn't used to was “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo". And the only reason I am not used to this one was because like a lot of kids I am from an extremely small town and we didn't have coffee shops to go to unless you went to the city. I was just never brought up knowing what types of coffee there was because there was never any close enough to me to get.
These statements are definately thought by a majority of our generation because this is what our generation was told and learned. We didn't pay attention to what happened leading to some of these events it is just what we learned after them. There are many more of the statements that I agree with and some that I wasn't used too, but these were just a few of my examples.
