One ritual of the start of the academic year is the release of Beloit College’s annual “mindset list,” which aims to help professors understand what their new freshmen experienced (and didn’t) growing up. Here are 5 of my favs from the list… 1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive. 18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess. 19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone. 28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day. 42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.