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Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990.

For these students, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddy Krueger have always been dead.

Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team.
Since they were in diapers, karaoke machines have been annoying people at parties.
They have always been looking for Carmen Sandiego.
GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
Coke and Pepsi have always used recycled plastic bottles.
Shampoo and conditioner have always been available in the same bottle.
Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.
Their parents may have dropped them in shock when they heard George Bush announce “tax revenue increases.”
Electronic filing of tax returns has always been an option.
Girls in head scarves have always been part of the school fashion scene.
All have had a relative--or known about a friend's relative--who died comfortably at home with Hospice.
As a precursor to “whatever,” they have recognized that some people “just don’t get it.”
Universal Studios has always offered an alternative to Mickey in Orlando.
Grandma has always had wheels on her walker.
Martha Stewart Living has always been setting the style.
Haagen-Dazs ice cream has always come in quarts.
Club Med resorts have always been places to take the whole family.
WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
Films have never been X rated, only NC-17.
The Warsaw Pact is as hazy for them as the League of Nations was for their parents.
Students have always been "Rocking the Vote.”
Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.
Schools have always been concerned about multiculturalism.
We have always known that “All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”
There have always been gay rabbis.
Wayne Newton has never had a mustache.
College grads have always been able to Teach for America.
IBM has never made typewriters.
Roseanne Barr has never been invited to sing the National Anthem again.
McDonald’s and Burger King have always used vegetable oil for cooking french fries.
They have never been able to color a tree using a raw umber Crayola.
There has always been Pearl Jam.
The Tonight Show has always been hosted by Jay Leno and started at 11:35 EST.
Pee-Wee has never been in his playhouse during the day.
They never tasted Benefit Cereal with psyllium.
They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.
Authorities have always been building a wall across the Mexican border.
Lenin’s name has never been on a major city in Russia.
Employers have always been able to do credit checks on employees.
Balsamic vinegar has always been available in the U.S.
Macaulay Culkin has always been Home Alone.
Their parents may have watched The American Gladiators on TV the day they were born.
Personal privacy has always been threatened.
Caller ID has always been available on phones.
Living wills have always been asked for at hospital check-ins.
The Green Bay Packers (almost) always had the same starting quarterback.
They never heard an attendant ask “Want me to check under the hood?”
Iced tea has always come in cans and bottles.
Soft drink refills have always been free.
They have never known life without Seinfeld references from a show about “nothing.”
Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.
Muscovites have always been able to buy Big Macs.
The Royal New Zealand Navy has never been permitted a daily ration of rum.
The Hubble Space Telescope has always been eavesdropping on the heavens.
98.6 F or otherwise has always been confirmed in the ear.
Michael Milken has always been a philanthropist promoting prostate cancer research.
Off-shore oil drilling in the United States has always been prohibited.
Radio stations have never been required to present both sides of public issues.
There have always been charter schools.
Students always had Goosebumps.
 
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Nice list...I wonder if they have one for people like me who were born in 1979....back when I was a young-un..we had tape decks and ET and Back to the Future were the big movies..

And yes I use Pert Plus...JEA!!!
 

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I had the "I feel old experience" this past Monday. One of the things I do outside the office is I'm a part time instructor at The University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine. This past Monday was the yearly faculty orientation that we have for the course I teach. The brand new 1st year students (most just graduated college in May and are 21/22 on average) were all there and attending basically a student activities fair. My god did they all look young to me :eek: What really had it sink in/hit home, is that that was me walking around in that same lobby 15 years ago(and it really does just seem like yesterday).

+1 on the Pert Plus too! ;)
 

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Last fall I transfered into a 4 year College. Before that it had taken me 3 years to get my 2 year degree at a community college, because of major changes.

At the new school I had to take a few classes that are required for all incoming students, so basically it was just me and a entire class of Freshmen. So here I was as a 21 yr. old(like most 4th year college students) and I would guess half of the rest of the students were 17..........Made me feel real old.
 

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Last fall I transfered into a 4 year College. Before that it had taken me 3 years to get my 2 year degree at a community college, because of major changes.

At the new school I had to take a few classes that are required for all incoming students, so basically it was just me and a entire class of Freshmen. So here I was as a 21 yr. old(like most 4th year college students) and I would guess half of the rest of the students were 17..........Made me feel real old.
Honey, that's nothing. I'm going back this fall at 31 to join a bunch of these youngins at college! :eek: But I get your point... it took me 4 years after high school to get my 2-year degree... then I took a break for a while and went back at 26 for an academic year... then took a break again until now. It's much different when you're an "older" student.
 

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They never tasted Benefit Cereal with psyllium.

Kids these days, I tell ya....
 

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couple more in case they were missed:

The internet has always been wide spread
There's always been either a bush or clinton as president
There has never been a time when Law & Order wasn't on television
 

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Don't need that damn list 2 feel OLD - I am OLDER than friggin DIRT, BUT will NEVER GET OLD




PS I had THAT same experience EVERY yr when our FROSH arrived -- I KNEWi t was TIME for me to retire when their GRANDMA'a looked good enuf to RAVISH LMAO

BTW ,Carrie : I did my BA by 21 -------- BUT finished my masters @ 38 ----- then started my PhD so late bloomers RULE in my book --NO substitute for "experience" and focus :D
 

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PS I had THAT same experience EVERY yr when our FROSH arrived -- I KNEWi t was TIME for me to retire when their GRANDMA'a looked good enuf to RAVISH LMAO

LMFAO!!! Instead of MILF's, I guess you'd call them GILF's!
 

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I remember being freaked out that people I knew weren't alive to see man land on the moon...
It was such a huge moment for me growing up...
 
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LMFAO!!! Instead of MILF's, I guess you'd call them GILF's!

My buddy Larry got with a grandma but she was only like 41 and he's in his 30s. As for college..wow it's been over 7 years since I graduated. I don't keep in touch with anybody from college anymore although when I'm in NYC I run into former classmates at bars. I still have anxiety nightmares where I forgot to take an exam which is needed to graduate..doh..anyway..I finished when I was 21 and I sort of wish I took a few extra years in college..just to enjoy the lifestyle before entering "The Real World"...being a skibum in a college town(Bozeman MT home of Montana State University)..that was the best because I got to party like a college student but no classes.
 
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I remember being freaked out that people I knew weren't alive to see man land on the moon...
It was such a huge moment for me growing up...

For people my age we instantly think of REM when the topic of Man on the Moon comes up..lol
 

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I feel old when I eat a Swanson dinner and realize that when I was young they came in an aluminum tray and took 45 minutes to cook in the oven.

Also I remeber when my dad brought home our first VCR, it was huge, and I remember when we first got a microwave, an Amana radar range.
 

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I remember when cars had tape decks..lol

My first car - 73 Ford Pinto(Orange) - had a sweet 8 track player.

I had Lynyrd Skynyrd "One more from the road".... Right in the middle of "Freebird" the track would change... So there would be a clicking noise.. 3 seconds of nothing another click then the song would restart...

To this day - when I here or even play that song I think of the track change...
 
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