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What college life looks like in...
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Writing a Paper
| No trips to the library necessary—find the most up-to-date primary and secondary resources, along with studies, papers, and reports, all online, from your laptop | Check out a stack of books and hit up the computer lab | Card catalogs, encyclopedias, Smith Corona typewriters and correction tape |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Getting in Touch With a Professor
| IM, Tweet @ your professor, or maybe she's old-school…and on Facebook | Send an email… from your AOL account…or your very own .edu address | Lurk outside harried professor's hoarder office during limited office hours along with 10 other students |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Grad Goals
| Pay off student loans before collecting Social Security | Get a job that you love… or drop out to be a successful entrepreneur | Join a corporation, work 30 years, retire with a pension |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
What's for Lunch?
| Check Twitter for nearby food trucks, Uber Eats | BBQ chicken pizza is so fancy | Head to the cafeteria for mystery meat |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Classroom Technology on Display?
| Realtime class polling, section discussion online, virtual reality classrooms | PowerPoint | Overhead projectors |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Hot Topics on Campus
| #metoo and consent, gun control | Vagina Monologues, Monica Lewinsky | Apartheid in South Africa, Jonestown massacre |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Existential Crisis
| Slow wifi | Printer not printing your homework | Running out of Wite-Out at 1:00 am the morning your term paper is due |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Procrastination of Choice
| So many subreddits, so little time; Netflix & chill | Watching The Simpsons on syndication, Half-Life | Frisbee on the quad, foosball |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
The College Life On-Screen
| grown-ish | Felicity | Animal House |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Dorm Room Poster
| Game of Thrones | Pulp Fiction | Peanuts |
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
Study Tunes
Spotify lists
- Bartier Cardi by Cardi B
- Ric Flair Drip by Offset
- God's Plan by Drake
- Perfect by Ed Sheeran
- Finesse by Bruno Mars & Cardi B
- Broken Halos by Chris Stapleton
Pirated mp3's with
- Ghetto Supastar by Ol' Dirty Bastard
- Intergalactic by The Beastie Boys
- ...Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
- This Kiss by Faith Hill
Cassette tapes-the birth of the mixtape with
- Le Freak by Chic
- Hopelessly Devoted to You by Olivia Newton John
- Three Times a Lady by the Commodores
- Da Ya Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart
| 2018 | 1998 | 1978 |
How to Meet Up With Friends
| Snapchat stories | Call or text me on my Nokia | Hanging out on the quad |