I thought I had a down-pat definition of this generation attending college today. I led myself to believe that this is the Headstart/Daycare-generation, but I now find that I must agree with those who label you teen-twentiers as Generation X. However, I don’t agree with the reason why you are called Generation X. The social police (AKA the media) have called you Generation X because they can’t place one label on you like they did us baby boomers.

I call you Generation X because I think that I have found out what you all want to be, generally speaking. Through observation and attentive listening, I have discovered that each generation seeks to be unique in its own right. This pursuance of dissimilarity has accelerated with the emergence of each generation. Yes, I believe there are some Headstart/Daycare-generation people out there, but I also believe that a new generation called Generation X is making its mark in our nation.

Shakespeare mused To be or not to be? The Xers, on the other hand, seem to communicate To be the X-ception or the boring normal? You probably have heard the expression Been there, done that many times. Normality is boring and the X-ception is in such as things like wearing sweat pants with one leg up, faddish haircuts, wearing baseball caps, etc.

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Right here on campus I have seen the X-ceptional backward nature of this generation in living action. Daily, as I have tried to cross the overpass connecting Brush Towers with the Student Center area, I have encountered a multitude of people walking on the other side of the white line designated for bike riders even when the pedestrian-designated side was not crowded.

So as I noted before, I believe that this generation is the X-ception generation who have become bored with the normal way of being human. I hope one day via experience that they will discover, as I have, that life can never be boring as long as you find your place in its puzzle.