For most students starting college this fall, bottled water is taken for granted, stadiums and rock tours have always had corporate names, Nelson Mandela has always been free and phone calls have never been private.
For the class of 2011, instantly updating autobiographies on “Facebook ” or “MySpace ” is as common as being a latchkey kid or having nutritional information on food labels. “Off the hook ” has nothing to do with phones and being “lame ” has more to do with being dumb or inarticulate than being disabled.