According to education pundits, traditional-age college students are "digital natives" inherently savvy in digital technology due to their constant exposure to technology from an early age. This widely held meme is at odds with observation in the college classroom. In this research, college students in an introductory information technology course are surveyed prior to instruction regarding perceptions of their own technological expertise in hardware, software, networking, research, computer graphics, computer security, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Students are then given pre-tests to assess their expertise in these topics based on course standards. Data from the survey and the pre-tests are analyzed. Although students self-assess slightly greater expertise in areas in which they actively use computers (Windows, Word, PowerPoint, and Research), they generally do not claim technological expertise. This lack of expertise is confirmed in pre-tests scores. Data analysis provides no support for the "digital native" meme.