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Boomers was a 20 year span but for each following generation they seem to be lazily giving it a 15 year range. To be honest it should more flexible and based off societal events. Wikipedia says Gen Z is 1997 to 2012 but it's got to go to at least 2015. And 97 is probably too early a starting time. I would define Gen Z as too young to remember 9/11 and in school during the pandemic.
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Why would you define Gen Z as being in school during the pandemic?
Ar0ge posted...
Why would you define Gen Z as being in school during the pandemic?

The shared experience. My youngest was alive during the pandemic but it didn't affect em in the same way as those that were already school aged.
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bfslick50 posted...
The shared experience. My youngest was alive during the pandemic but it didn't affect em in the same way as those that were already school aged.
But if you were born in 1997-2001 or so, you weren't in school during the pandemic.
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
But if you were born in 1997-2001 or so, you weren't in school during the pandemic.
Yeah I graduated high school before the pandemic. I was in college during it though
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
But if you were born in 1997-2001 or so, you weren't in school during the pandemic.
The pandemic was my freshman year of college. Born 2000. If you were born in 2001 it was your senior year of high school.
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Letsago posted...
Yeah I graduated high school before the pandemic. I was in college during it though
Given that college is optional and is a totally different environment from K-12, I wouldn't really consider that "school" in the same sense. That's a personal definition, though, so it is open to interpretation. Hence why it's a strange thing to put in one's definition of Gen Z lol
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Doe posted...
If you were born in 2001 it was your senior year of high school.
Depends on when in 2001 you were born. You tend to graduate high school as an 18 year old, so if you were born early in 2001 you might have graduated in 2019 before the Pandemic really hit.
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
Given that college is optional and is a totally different environment from K-12, I wouldn't really consider that "school" in the same sense. That's a personal definition, though, so it is open to interpretation. Hence why it's a strange thing to put in one's definition of Gen Z lol
Yeah, and you could be much older and still in college
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bfslick50 posted...
Boomers was a 20 year span but for each following generation they seem to be lazily giving it a 15 year range. To be honest it should more flexible and based off societal events. Wikipedia says Gen Z is 1997 to 2012 but it's got to go to at least 2015. And 97 is probably too early a starting time. I would define Gen Z as too young to remember 9/11 and in school during the pandemic.
4 year olds don't have much of a memory so that is the reason for 97. Moving to 98 would fix no memory of 9/11 as there is no memory of being 3.
Letsago posted...
Yeah I graduated high school before the pandemic. I was in college during it though

I imagine college students during the pandemic experienced a lot of similarities to high school students during that time.
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bfslick50 posted...
I imagine college students during the pandemic experienced a lot of similarities to high school students during that time.
You can be in college at any age past high school though
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
You can be in college at any age past high school though
I actually heard a kid graduated college at age 17 during the pandemic at my alma mater
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
You can be in college at any age past high school though

Generation lines are never going to be perfect absolutes. It's talking about the typical experience for the average person born that year.
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i'd say the cutoff for gen alpha is the elementary schoolers in the pandemic

not sure about gen z though, prob just [not old enough to remember 9/11] or something
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bfslick50 posted...
Generation lines are never going to be perfect absolutes. It's talking about the typical experience for the average person born that year.
well as someone who was in college during the pandemic, it really wasnt very similar to how it affected K-12. College isnt a 7 hour shift everyday and my school already offered online courses pre-pandemic, so the experience isnt really comparable.

grad schools were affected the exact same way but i dont think youd say grad school students in the pandemic were automatically gen z

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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
well as someone who was in college during the pandemic, it really wasnt very similar to how it affected K-12. College isnt a 7 hour shift everyday and my school already offered online courses pre-pandemic, so the experience isnt really comparable.

grad schools were affected the exact same way but i dont think youd say grad school students in the pandemic were automatically gen z

Has there ever been a birth year where the average person went to grad school? It's getting way too niche. Also when I went to grad school during normal times I felt more related to my peers with a job than I did to undergrads. I'm sure it's different in other disciplines but in engineering by the second year research took up more of my time than classes and that felt like any other job.
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Generations should have shrank in size after the millenial generation, due to how rapidly society (and people) changed around the turn of the millennium

Like for millenials, someone born in 1981 at least shares some similarities with someone born in 1996. Both grew up with the internet (at different life stages, but still) and have memories of pre-internet, pre-smart phones, 9/11, video stores, big cultural events etc

But for gen Z'ers, someone born in 1997 has absolutely nothing in common with someone born in 2012. And they still won't have anything in common when they're both older

A 1997 baby is a normal, well-adjusted adult who didn't even deal with covid during their own education. A 2012 baby missed in-person first and second grade to covid, and are full on skibidi toilet brainrot. You could and should honestly split gen Z into two different generations
bfslick50 posted...
Has there ever been a birth year where the average person went to grad school? It's getting way too niche. Also when I went to grad school during normal times I felt more related to my peers with a job than I did to undergrads. I'm sure it's different in other disciplines but in engineering by the second year research took up more of my time than classes and that felt like any other job.
I think equating college to k-12 is already getting too niche. Not all generations have strict cut off dates and idk if being in school during the pandemic is a great one
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GrandConjuraton posted...
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I am too easily amused but I want to be apart of the Lost Generation! Also why was the second, the Greatest? Haha
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
I think equating college to k-12 is already getting too niche. Not all generations have strict cut off dates and idk if being in school during the pandemic is a great one

When I said in school I was thinking about using the pandemic as the young age cutoff and not the pandemic but 9/11 for the old age cutoff. 2012 seems like an early cutoff date (from the graphic posted here which is also what I came across when I made this topic).
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Kamil posted...
I am too easily amused but I want to be apart of the Lost Generation! Also why was the second, the Greatest? Haha
best guess says that it's bc they were born right before the great depression when America was going through a ton of growth in the early 1900s
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Kamil posted...
I am too easily amused but I want to be apart of the Lost Generation! Also why was the second, the Greatest? Haha

World War 2. Lost Generation refers to how an entire generation died in World War 1.
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