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.
Hello! I totally agree with you on the email, facebook, texting thing. I only use email to contact people that I don't have on facebook or if I don't have their cell number. I also grew up in a small down so I didn't know the coffee lingo until I was older. I have yet to go to a Starbucks or any place that strictly sells coffee for that matter.
ReplyDeleteI agree I was sitting there nodding at the whole article. I though that of them were funny too.
ReplyDeletei would have to agree with you, that we have a need for instant contact like facebook or texting. and like you, i never had a coffee shop back home, but ive heard those coffee phrases enough to know what they mean. and also the ribbons were something i was familiar with, primarily red ones for the drug free week we used to do in elementary school.
ReplyDeleteYou can learn a lot from articles like this. For example most of us are from small towns in Iowa and have never had a coffee shop there, and thus don't really know the "lingo". However, some people from larger cities might have gone to a coffee shop almost everyday. So some of the things on the list that we all take for granted, some people have never heard of, or didn't need to know.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the snail mail thing. I never send a letter unless its to someone a long ways away or a package. I use my phone all the time and always talk to my friends that live far away from me on facebook or my phone. I also do not know the coffee lingo and to this day I will not go into a big coffee shop because I have no idea what anything even is.
ReplyDeleteI really wish people would send letters more often because they make people feel special, well at least I do when i receive them. But skype is a great way to talk to your friends and family if you aren't near them.
ReplyDeleteI use email a tad more often than other sources of communication, but I agree that it's no longer as convinient as other forms (ex. texting)
ReplyDelete"Caramel Macchiato" is completely unfamiliar to me . . . despite the fact that I'm from a rather large city/suburb area.
I always look at people's ribbons. If I don't know what the color represents and I'm unable to ask the wearer, I usually go home and Google it. I think it's fascinating that no matter the cause, there is a color or a symbol to go with it.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with your comment about email. In high school, I never checked my email. I would always log onto facebook, or check my cell phone. However, I have found myself checking my email every couple of hours in college. It's definitely new to me!
I agree with the ribbons. They are all over the place and I have tried to stay on top of knowing them all. I, however, am very familiar with the "street corner lingo" of coffee shops because I am from a large city with about five or so Starbucks.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the cellphone and facebook thing being the thing to keep people in touch rather than sending them an email or a letter. I'm used to checking my email regularly though because I get emails for clubs and from my teachers and peer mentors, so I try to keep up with that. I also have no idea any of the coffee lingo. I'm from a small town where there are no coffee shops anywhere and it's usually just brewed coffee, like Folgers, in the few restaurants we have.
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