The freshmen have arrived -- Welcome to Rio Hondo College and to the Library! We hope your educational journey here at Rio will be a rewarding and enjoyable experience.

In 1998, two professors from Beloit College in Maine created the “Mindset List” describing the world view of incoming college freshmen. As a reminder to college faculty to keep their examples and references current, it proved immensely popular both in the US and around the world and has been updated every year since. Click on this link to read this year’s Mindset List for the Class of 2017, most of whom were born in 1995. If you were born that year, see how well the list describes you!

 

Some highlights:

·    Dean Martin, Mickey Mantle, and Jerry Garcia have always been dead.

·    They are the sharing generation, having shown tendencies to share everything, including possessions, no matter how personal.

·    Having a chat has seldom involved talking.

·    Rites of passage have more to do with having their own cellphone and Skype accounts than with getting a driver’s license and car.

·    Threatening to shut down the government during federal budget negotiations has always been an anticipated tactic.

·    Jurassic Park has always had rides and snack bars, not free-range triceratops and velociraptors.

·    Courts have always been ordering computer network wiretaps.