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Hey guys! My name is Brady Eischeid, and I am a 2010 Hixson Scholar from Guthrie County College of Agriculture
When first reading the introduction for the Beloit College Mindset List for the collegiate class of 2014, several ideas pop out at me. “With cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wristwatch” and “Russia has presumably never aimed nukes at the United States and China
Once into the 75 fact list, I can just skim through the first several statements and just sort them into two categories: MAYBE and NO WAY. The very first one, “few…know how to write in cursive” is a MAYBE: even if we don’t like it, we all had to do it in third grade up until junior high. As for the second, that gets a big fat NO WAY: any Iowa State University Czechoslovakia
I also noticed that a good chunk of the statements listed in the Mindset List are related to technology and young adults’ attitudes towards technology. Examples like “viewer discretion” for television warnings, computers’ CD-ROM disk drives, car manufacturers, and the computer HAL show the trend of innovative machinery and how our generation is much more dependent on it than that of our parents and grandparents. The next biggest categories of statements and topics appear to be people, historical events, music, products, and economy.
The Beloit College Mindset List is, overall, a very good insight to what a large portion of students my age are thinking about the history, technology, economy, and culture of the world. It definitely puts into perspective about how much perception can change from generation to generation. This has been my first blog as a Hixson Scholar, and I hoped you enjoyed it! Thanks!
I LOVE your introduction...they've brain washed us! Your comment about being Czechoslovakian cracked me up though!
ReplyDeleteI would really agree about the watch thing. I actually own a few watches but when I wear them I wear them like bracelets and will still ask people what the time is even with it right there on my wrist. Phones have become such a necessity anymore.
ReplyDeleteYour mom is not alone when she thinks she "knows it all"...my mom "tries" too.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the cursive statement. We all used to do it. We have just lost touch with it and never seem to want to write in cursive. It takes too long.
ReplyDeleteI like how you know you're exactly 13 percent Czech I'm not sure I know the exact percentage of what I am.
ReplyDeleteI found the list's comment about Czechoslovakia rather offensive
ReplyDeleteI had a sixth grade project that included a family tree...so my parents sat down and figured out the exact percentages of what I am..haha!
ReplyDeletefamily heritage is important and its cool that you know what percentage your are. Technology is crazy sometime and a little confusing, but the thing about watches is true. I tend to rely on my phone so much.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you that our generation is dependent on technology. My parents for fun would go out and do stuff outside. Now, young kids and teenagers sit in front of a television and play video games.
ReplyDeleteI went to this thing, that I can't remember what it was called, that was talking about how our generation depends so much on technology. The lady tied this in with how students don't write anything out anymore. I found it sad but true.
ReplyDeleteGood job on your first blog! Someone gave me a watch for Christmas last year. I never really wore watches before and thought that I would never wear it, but it is actually really handy (especially when some classrooms don't have clocks).
ReplyDeleteI honestly forgot a lot of my cursive the only thing I can do well is my signature anymore. Thats the only time I need to use it now. Our generation is for sure dependent on technology.
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