Katie Couric's Notebook: College Slang

Now, if you're scratching your head, you are probably not currently a college student.

UCLA has just published its sixth edition of college slang words - the turns of phrase that students there and all over the country are using these days.

I was pleasantly relieved to hear that the word "biznatch" actually refers to business - as in stay out of my, what we old schoolers may have called "beeswax." The word "recessionista" is a sign of the times. It's a "fashionista," on a budget. "Schwa" means "wow," and thanks to a recent movie "I Love You, Man" - we know all about "bromances" - not that there is anything wrong with that...

It'll be fun to see how many of these words are still around twenty years from now, and how many go the way of "gnarly" and "rad."

And it's good to know that "cool" is still a part of the lexicon - a word we all understand - whether we are, or not.

That's a page from my notebook.

I'm Katie Couric, CBS News.