Beloit College List 2003
Just when you think you’ll never be famous, you find out that three months after a lady from the AP stops you while you’re trying to find Norris Health Center, you were in the national news EVERYWHERE. (Most likely because it was national news. And even though your uncle left a message on the answering machine about it, you promptly forgot about it.) That’s right, I was quoted in an Associated Press article about this year’s Beloit College list found right here . God, I feel special. I also swore (“Oh my god!”) and they printed it, which tickles me to no end. And I never thought that you’d be able to find me by typing “Sarah Hugill guns” into a Google search. It seems very funny to me, since I really am not into the whole gun thing.
Anyway, enough talking about my 15 nanoseconds of fame. Let’s talk about this Beloit College List and how frustrating it is. I mean, do these people even give people my age any credit? We aren’t all big piles of ignorance. The Straight Dope has, in some ways, fought and vanquished quite a bit of ignorance. It’s not as if we are totally without comprehension of the generations before us. It seems a bit silly to me to need to have professors run about and find examples from teen culture today to illustrate their lectures. (I’ve had no problem understanding my professors’ analogies.) Does this list really make everybody feel incredibly old? It makes me feel a little sad for my peers, if they really don’t know who Paul Newman is or that “it’s all about the bling-bling.” Of course, I also feel bad for the people who never experienced the joy of having a Popple. 
I loved my Popple so much. Especially after I gave it a crew cut.
Sarah