25+ Years difference

1976: Long hair

2002: Longing for hair

1976: The perfect high

2002: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1976: KEG

2002: EKG

1976: Acid rock

2002: Acid reflux

1976: Moving to California because it's cool

2002: Moving to California because it's warm

1976: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

2002: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1976: Seeds and stems

2002: Roughage

1976: Killer weed

2002: Weed killer

1976: Hoping for a BMW

2002: Hoping for a BM

1976: Going to a new, hip joint

2002: Receiving a new hip joint

1976: Rolling Stones

2002: Kidney Stones

1976: Being called into the principal's office

2002: Calling the principal's office

1976: Screw the system

2002: Upgrade the system

1976: Disco

2002: Costco

1976: Parents begging you to get your hair cut

2002: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1976: Passing the drivers' test

2002: Passing the vision test

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.

Each year the staff at Beloit College inWisconsin puts together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of this year's incoming freshmen.

Here's this year's list:

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.

They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine.

They have always had cable.

They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

They can't imagine what hard contact lenses! are.

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".

They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.