College says incoming freshmen don't use email and don't write in cursive

MILWAUKEE — For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and the computers they played with as kids are now in museums.

The Class of 2014 thinks of Clint Eastwood more as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry urging punks to "go ahead, make my day." Few incoming freshmen know how to write in cursive or have ever worn a watch.:o

These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List. The compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at this private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis.

The list is meant to remind teachers that cultural references familiar to them might draw blank stares from college freshmen born mostly in 1992.

Being aware of the generation gap helps professors craft lesson plans that are more meaningful, said Ron Nief, a former public affairs director at Beloit College and one of the list's creators.

Nief and English professor Tom McBride have assembled the Mindset List for 13 years. They say it's given them an unusual perspective on cultural shifts.

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How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Pirate700

I was wondering that too haha. Besides telepathy I don't think it gets much faster...

How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Pirate700

I guess college faculty get paid a lot of money to think up stuff like that to "look cool" to the students.:lol:

I am old, and I don't write in cursive. ...pointless IMO [spoiler] b/c mine looks like crap [/spoiler] rawsavon

I can't remember the last time I wrote something other than my name in cursive :lol:

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How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

topsemag55

I guess college faculty get paid a lot of money to think up stuff like that to "look cool" to the students.:lol:

UnknownSniper65

I am old, and I don't write in cursive. ...pointless IMO [spoiler] b/c mine looks like crap [/spoiler] rawsavon

This was going to be my response. You stole the words right out of my mouth!

How can you get through school and not learn cursive? Writing otherwise takes so long.

How can you get through school and not learn cursive? Writing otherwise takes so long.

sonicare

I can write in cursive just fine! I simply choose not to on the basis that it's hideous.

How can you get through school and not learn cursive? Writing otherwise takes so long.

sonicare

Can you imagine the fracas if a teacher wanted a handwritten essay instead of typewritten?

What a disaster.:P:lol:

How can you get through school and not learn cursive? Writing otherwise takes so long.

How can you get through school and not learn cursive? Writing otherwise takes so long.

sonicare

I am old, and I don't write in cursive. ...pointless IMO [spoiler] b/c mine looks like crap [/spoiler] rawsavon

Cursive is pointless. It's going the way of calligraphy. Unless you're a medieval monk, it's not needed.

I was born in '90 and I remember cordless phones, and I learned how to write in cursive when I was 8.

Who the hell uses cursive anymore, anyway?

Cursive is silly

I was born in 1992 and I know Dirty Harry and use email all the time... How do they NOT know Dirty Harry? :?

I dont understand. I am a couple years younger than these people and none of those things apply to me.

I dont understand. I am a couple years younger than these people and none of those things apply to me.

disharmonized

How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Pirate700

In the list it says: "58. Beethoven has always been a dog." This confused me. I know there is the series of movies with the dog Beethoven, but the composer has been dead for far longer than only THIS generation. If they were implying that when the name Beethoven was mentioned people thought of the dog, then i really do not have much hope for the future...

That's...not true :( If so, there's something really wrong with me because I'm starting college next year and I still remember phones with cords, how to write in cursive, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly :Sgamefan606

I am old, and I don't write in cursive. ...pointless IMO [spoiler] b/c mine looks like crap [/spoiler] rawsavon

Exactly the same for me.

Except for the old thing :P

[QUOTE="UnknownSniper65"]Atmanix

Ya. They don't teach cursive right/enough/at all. I had a class in 5th grade where we did a little cursive. That was it.

I'll be a college freshman next year. I don't write in cursive but I know how and I don't use e-mail to communicate with people and I never wear watches.

I can write in cursive but I know a buttload of kids that can't. Other than that yeah, I don't use email :P.

my cursive writing = maze of ink

Do you feel lucky, punk?

Do you feel lucky, punk?

kimkim01

Harry Callahan likes you for remembering him.:)

How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Pirate700

How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Pirate700

How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Pirate700

well, I guess we're all going to die.

I wrote in cursive since I was 6. :?

Uhhh...I, and just about every other college student I know, uses emails for school. No one texts their professor assignments...

I am old, and I don't write in cursive. ...pointless IMO [spoiler] b/c mine looks like crap [/spoiler] rawsavon

This exactly. Teachers were telling me all through grade school and high school that they couldn't read my cursive, so I write in script in college. I always wondered if I should be writing in cursive anyways, but no one ever said anything so I just go with it.

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How is email too slow? It's the fastest way to sent info to another person. :?

Atmanix

I was wondering that too haha. Besides telepathy I don't think it gets much faster...