Beloit Freshman List: Beloit College has published its annual list about this year’s freshman class. Here are some of the highlights regarding the class of 2011, born in 1989:

• Born the year the Berlin Wall fell.
• Humvees have always been available to the public.
• Have never “rolled down” a car window.
• Have grown up with bottled water
• Nelson Mandela has always been free and a political force in South Africa
• Pete Rose has never played baseball
• Russia has always had a multi-party political system
• The year they were born a Harvard Law Review editor named Barack Obama announced he might some day run for office.
• U2 has never brought to mind a spy plane
• They first met Jack Nicholson as “the Joker”
• Fox has always been a major network
• Time has always worked with Warner
• MTV has never featured music videos
• They are more informed by John Stewart and Stephen Colbert than the newspaper
• The world wide web has been an online tool since they year they were born
• Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture
• They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcom X from Spike Lee
• Class mates include: Michelle Wie; Jordin Sparks; and Bart Simpson