I have a 2005 Corolla. It has non-power windows.
I just don't believe some of this stuff. Like:
Beavis and Butthead? Wasn't that BEFORE their time?

Hasn't U2 been more than a spy plane for quite some time now? Like... the 80s?

I agree with the condescending thing. I think this is a list of things Boomers are used to knowing and them laughing at the college kids not experiencing it.

Man those crazy college kids. They don't even know what the Berlin Wall was!

You really see this as condescending and desperate? What’s so wrong with nostalgia?

After reading my own Class of 2003 list, I found myself nodding in agreement to most of the items - and knew everything they had listed in the addendum to be true as well (but where was the Hypercolor shout-out?). It was frivolous, fun and a generally accurate glossed over application of all relevant stereotypes. Now, would I have agreed with it at the time? Probably not since my self-righteousness wouldn’t have allowed it. Our generation was in college after all, as this list proves. We were smart enough to know who threw up on a prime minister! But if someone at the time asked me what Camelot was … well, I know I wouldn’t have mentioned the Kennedy family.

At the very least, while this list might appear to some as character assassination on the Class of 2011 (and those of us from the past decade), it opens the door for discussion. And, maybe the professors really are desperate for nostalgia. But maybe the nostalgia they’re feeling is for a less-complicated world where their students’ minds belong to the pursuit of higher education – not the gleaming interwebs. They should be applauded for presenting the differences in perception between professor and student. I can’t seem to find the Digg This option on their page though…

Oh, this is nothing. In the Global and Mail, one of Canada's most read news papers, conservative wordsmith Margaret Wente suggested in her weekend column that "It's Our Fault They Can't Grow Up." She laments the days that a 16-year-old George Washington was already kicking ass and Roman teenagers were killing people left and right. Now all young people do is extend adolescence into their 30s because their parents let them travel around and go to school forever.

She went on the day after to celebrate a fallen canadian soldier by recounting a funny name his friends had for him (ironically or unironically, I can't tell, as it is clearly a reference to his genitalia) and his "beautiful, almost hairless" chest.

I wonder if this tasteless Canadian is an alumnus of Beloit College. They sound as if they complement each other beautifully.

Yeah, I do. I do read it as condescending and desperate. A lame grab by Boomers or older generations in general to mock the next group of young people as out of touch with history. It's the digital equivalent of "When I was your age, I walked 100 miles to school through giant snow drfits, with no shoes! (And to do a Dana Carvey ref.) AND WE LIKED IT! WE LOVED IT!"

Cmon. What is a university doing the equivalent of a "I love the 80s" study anyway?

And furthermore....
Sorry I just checked mine and it was so ridiculously wrong it was laughable. I definitely remember the Challenger blowing up. I was in Kindergarten and we devoted a whole day to space exploration and stuff.

It's a dumb exercise. Nothing is wrong with nostalgia but this isn't nostalgia. It's a list of things kids aren't able to be nostalgic about. How much sense does that make?

Such anger Head. You should spend less time texting.

I guess to me it just seems shortsighted. There are things that are interesting - the fact that since these students have been alive The Cold War has been over. Think about it this way - their Star Wars starts with Episode 1 and Lil Anakin Skywalker.

I'm too old to even have a list.....so you youngins just debate among yourself.

But there is nothing wrong w/ professors trying to make an attempt to understand their students, even if it's slightly out of touch or off base. Worse would be not trying.

Now ac has a point there. I mean yes... if that's really what this is all about then I am all for it.

I am eager for politicians and the like who don't have the 60s and all that's associated with it as this large piece of cultural baggage.

And I wasn't angry Ellis. More...annoyed.

Those poor kids. They should make the original trilogy required viewing. The prequels sucked and not just cause they came out when I was not a kid.

I teach psychology in college, and one set of my lecture notes actually includes a Patti LaBelle joke, which my students don't get anymore. I think that may make me a member of the Disconnected and Desperately Nostalgic Professoriate. Sh*t.

On the other hand, Mr. Ellis, with whom I have exchanged text messages, invited me to read this blog entry via Myspace, so that must mean I'm somewhat hip, right?

On still another hand, though, I have to admit that I refuse to use "text" or "blog" as verbs, so that counts against my Hip Quotient.

*sigh* I need a nap.

Growing up on the side of a mountain on rural Vancouver Island, the satellites only blessed our rabbit ears with two stations - CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), and some ridiculous station that played ancient episodes of cheaply-licensed shows.

CBC was always good for some news, hockey, and David Suzuki's: The Nature of Things, but when me and my brother got our grubby little paws on the dial, we'd flip over to that station with all the old sh*t.

I remember assuming that the Adam West-era Batman was the latest action flick available, and those Disney shorts about Tomorrowland were cutting edge science.

Once the ice shelf melted and we dog-sledded to the suburbs, my little mind was blown by 32 channels of 1988! I had a lot of catching up to do.

I hope the class of 2011 has some genuine appreciation for us old timers and our VHS repair skills. Worthless primadonnas.

Jono once again proving that Canada is just as weird as you think it is.