Beloit Mindset List for class of 2012 notes GPS, IBM typewriters and caller I.D.

For more than a decade, Beloit College has released the “Beloit College Mindset List” that looks at cultural touchstones shaping the lives of the years college-bound students. The List this year is aimed at the 2 million young people born around 1990. Beloit notes that the class of 2012 has grown up where computer and rapid communications are the norm and colleges no longer trumpet the fact that residence halls are “wired.”