Are you feeling old? If not, consider this:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born
in 1980. Therefore:

* The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
* They have no memory of a time before M-TV.
* "New Wave" is their PARENTS musical generation.
* Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols
are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.
* They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
* They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
* If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a
losing Congessional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey
history text's reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or
Teapot Dome.
* Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
* Their world has always included AIDS.
* Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the
1970s.
* They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids - on video.
* Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes.
* The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing and why
anyone WOULDN'T buy a Suburban is beyond them.
* Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, EVEN if they went to
Catholic schools.

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