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RE: The Beloit College Mindset List for 2012 is out. Yo... - 8/19/2008 5:08:12 PM   
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My favorite thing about this years list is the Hubble Telescope.
These students have never known a world without it.
To me it is a constant ongoing miracle.

My favorite thing about the site is that they have all
the past lists posted.  I have been hearing about them whenever
they came out.  It is nice to finally have the source.

I am glad others have enjoyed it.

Outlier

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RE: The Beloit College Mindset List for 2012 is out. Yo... - 8/19/2008 5:33:52 PM   
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Little too blatantly ridden with concepts that I'd find false for most of my classmates really. Being a 2004.

Like:

Kurt Cobain's death was the "day the music died."
psh please. He was okay, but it wasn't a huge surprise or tragedy. Sure, a talented guy committed suicide. But the day the music died? Hell, I'd put Ray Charles alot higher up on the days music died list if it was ever concluded to be dead.

The Kennedy tragedy was a plane crash, not an assassination.
Not if you went to a halfway decent school and paid attention. Everyone ends up taking history, and it's usually covered to death.

Huckleberry Finn has always been a "banned book."
True, but personally I tend to take the banned books list as things to read asap.

They have never referred to Russia and China as "the Reds."
Unless we're making fun of McCarthy

There are some really good ones though

If they vaguely remember the night the Berlin Wall fell, they are probably not sure why it was up in the first place.

Probably mostly true, my mom explained to me when I was a kid why it was significant. We were up late watching news coverage all that night. It's pretty etched into my memory.

I'd rather see them all be interesting stuff like that, but has to be some filler I suppose.


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RE: The Beloit College Mindset List for 2012 is out. Yo... - 8/19/2008 5:46:34 PM   
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Fascinating!

They have ear thermometers now?

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