10% of our undergraduates believe...

[hairyears]

Following on from a conversation in the Pembury Tavern*, I note that it is the start of the academic year: some of you are helping the new intake of undergraduates with inductions and orientation; some of you will be teaching them; and a few of you will actually be among them

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[pplfichi]

I would send this to my youngest brother who's just started Uni, but I strongly suspect he'd feel insulted.

[fanf]

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/

[hairyears]

That is exactly the type of list I was hoping for.

[feanelwa]

A worrying and disgusting number still seem to believe that smoking is cool and medically benign:(

[feanelwa]

On the other hand they are quite au fait with the phrase "don't feed the troll" and workplace bullies may finally get what's coming to them. (And I don't mean a shredded ham sandwich fed carefully into their PC.)

[shermarama]

I bet someone somewhere thinks Nelson Mandela was a famous South African footballer. He probably played for them years and years ago, like, in the 80s or something.

Mind you, gaps don't have to be large at all if it's something people don't think about. I once had a conversation with some younger-than-me bandmates about school and stuff, in which we discussed GCSE grades, and they were surprised that I didn't have any A*s. I had to explain that when I did them they only went up to A.

The scariest thing might be what music those kids will remember from that crux point where they were first old enough to be aware of it. There will be people starting university now who desperately wanted to go to a Spice Girls, Boyzone or B*Witched concert when they were five. Some of them will have moaned at their parents listening to old bands like Nirvana. The first song they can remember hearing on the radio might well be by Oasis or Radiohead. And several of them are going to have sung along enthusiastically to Barbie Girl without being drunk.