Yeah, as an '82 myself, I can't accept the Millennial tag, yet I don't quite fit into gen X. With how quickly technology changes the way we live, generational definitions should be shorter. My brother, born in '78 registered for classes at UM each semester by calling the "CRISP lady", phoning in his selections. When I enrolled in 2000 all class registration was online. My brother's long distance relationships involved paying for each minute of a long distance phone call. I got my first cell phone in college and didn't have to watch my long distance minutes. By my senior year I was using Facebook to organize study groups (back when the book of faces was new and only college kids). Fairly different experiences with just 4 years between us.
And while these stories make me sound like a millenial compared to my brother, I feel like my childhood was significantly different from kids in college today. I remember using DOS. I didn't get a cell phone until my junior year of college. My video games were the original Nintendo. MTV played music videos when I was growing up. I had a Geocities website, not a myspace. AOL Instant Messangeer was new and amazing when I was in high school.
