Me in college (as a Gen Xer)

[Rolling Thunder]

I recently went back to school and graduated in the foul year of 2020. It was a great experience and I found it mentally refreshing.....however....one time I made an Anchorman reference which resulted in crickets and a cough. I instantly realized I referenced a movie that came out when most of the people in the class were about 5 years old. Anyhoo, here's an exaggeration of that feeling:

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

What a shame, Anchorman is a classic! Sometimes my friends and I (gen Z) make Blazing Saddles references.

 

[pie_man_25]

I honestly didn't think much of Anchorman the first time I saw it, I had to see it a second time. I liked Talladega nights a lot though.

I still don't think I've seen the second one, but my bet is it's great.

 

[buldog5151bass]

I went shopping for a college graduation card for my son. There some really touching Dr. Seuss cards, but I doubt he would have appreciated the sentiment.

 

[DirtDog]

I recently went back to school and graduated in the foul year of 2020. It was a great experience and I found it mentally refreshing.....however....one time I made an Anchorman reference which resulted in crickets and a cough. I instantly realized I referenced a movie that came out when most of the people in the class were about 5 years old. Anyhoo, here's an exaggeration of that feeling:

It took a minute to unpack that video. Very meta.

 

[gln1955]

I like that I can make pop culture references from the 60's and 70's on TB and at least some people get them.

 

[Riff Ranger]

HSU?

I graduated from there in 2007 at age 26 with a ten-month-old kid. Even at that age, I felt old compared to my classmates. Except for the guy who started in 1976 and finished in 2006

 

[Rolling Thunder]

HSU?

I graduated from there in 2007 at age 26 with a ten-month-old kid. Even at that age, I felt old compared to my classmates. Except for the guy who started in 1976 and finished in 2006

Yeah, it's like a mental puberty goes on between 20 & 30 (at least for most....sigh)

 

[Rolling Thunder]

HSU?

Yep, here's the trail that goes by campus apartments from earlier today (go Jacks!):

 

[Riff Ranger]

Yep, here's the trail that goes by campus apartments from earlier today (go Jacks!):

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Love it! Great spots all over that campus. I especially enjoyed watching banana slugs by the bridge in the woods just behind Founders Hall during my lunch breaks.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Oh, and congratulations on finishing that degree! It’s enough of a slog under ordinary circumstances.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Oh, and congratulations on finishing that degree! It’s enough of a slog under ordinary circumstances.

Thanks. The last semester was kind of a mental slog. We got out for Spring Break and then just didn't come back...as much as they tried to attempt in-person classes, it just didn't happen (or a formal graduation).

 

[nickbor34]

I recently went back to school and graduated in the foul year of 2020. It was a great experience and I found it mentally refreshing.....however....one time I made an Anchorman reference which resulted in crickets and a cough. I instantly realized I referenced a movie that came out when most of the people in the class were about 5 years old. Anyhoo, here's an exaggeration of that feeling:

you can't even imagine how much I share your feelings.

 

[hrodbert696]

I teach college, 50 years old, know what you mean. At the same time, I do find that, in the age of digital media, young people are a lot more attuned to the pop culture of the past than I was at their age. It's as easy for them to access the Office or Star Trek as a show that just came out this year, they know Queen as well as Billie Eilish. I find about the same proportion of them get Monty Python references as when I was a teenager, maybe more.

Probably where I feel it more is in world events/news references, not pop culture. An incoming 18-year-old freshman was born in 2003, after 9/11, and was all of six years old when the US withdrew from Iraq. So I have to bear that in mind when using modern comparisons to historical events.

 

[nickbor34]

I teach college, 50 years old, know what you mean. At the same time, I do find that, in the age of digital media, young people are a lot more attuned to the pop culture of the past than I was at their age. It's as easy for them to access the Office or Star Trek as a show that just came out this year, they know Queen as well as Billie Eilish. I find about the same proportion of them get Monty Python references as when I was a teenager, maybe more.

Probably where I feel it more is in world events/news references, not pop culture. An incoming 18-year-old freshman was born in 2003, after 9/11, and was all of six years old when the US withdrew from Iraq. They also have in their arsenal such services as Write My Dissertation ✍ [from $13.99] which help to learn more, faster. So I have to bear that in mind when using modern comparisons to historical events.

Yes, it's amazing that children of the new generation can perceive and process twice as much information. But this is also their problem. After all, they are overloaded.

 

[two fingers]

I went back at 39 years old (about to turn 50). Yeah.... the kids didn't "get me". But that's OK. They're not supposed to. We didn't "get" 40 year olds when we were 18-20 either.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou and The Blues Brothers are my favorite quotable movies. My daughters are 9 and 12. I get or or a lot.

I don't care. I'm over here all like .

 

[blastoff99]

Congratulations on going back and getting your degree! It's a really big deal, and I hope you are proud of this accomplishment. My transcripts are currently being evaluated by my local community college for feasibility of turning into some sort of AAS degree. If I'm fewer than x credits away, I'll go back. If it's more than that, I won't. But I got to say, I'm slightly terrified about the prospect of even trying. Not only am I Very Old, I'm sure there's a million uses of technology that are required every day that I have no idea even exist. My hat is off to you!

 

[hrodbert696]

Yes, it's amazing that children of the new generation can perceive and process twice as much information. But this is also their problem. After all, they are overloaded.

I don't think they're actually processing twice as much information. What I said is that they have information available to them differently; the perception of a medium like music being "old" or "new" doesn't register the same because both are delivered the same way. I don't think a contemporary 20-year-old knows more songs than I did when I was 20, for instance; but the spectrum of what songs they know and where they came from is different. Further, with a lot of them, give them twenty pages of a book to read and they don't know what to do with it (even in digital form). The world of TL/DR entails a lot of NOT processing information even when it's available. Which, I agree, is a problem; it's very difficult to figure out what's worth processing and how.

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Yes, it's amazing that children of the new generation can perceive and process twice as much information. But this is also their problem. After all, they are overloaded.

Source? Because every young person I know needs to be told to change their underwear. Changing your skivvies is pretty basic information to process.

 

[LiquidMidnight]

I realized that I was no longer "with it" when people no longer understood my Seinfeld references. I guess that makes me "cheugy".