<p>S1 does not watch any tv while away. He is in a triple with no tv and he leads me to believe that even in the lounges there are no tvs (or if there are, he hasn’t seen them). I know there are some tvs in the campus center.
Is this the norm, or his school unusual? From what he says, no one watches tv there, which I find hard to fathom.</p>
<p>mine watches it some, in the lounge area</p>
<p>its a group thing, certain shows attract people</p>
<p>Mine lives in 4 guy apt. Each guy has a TV in his room plus one in their living area. So yeah, they watch TV…mostly History channel, military channel, comedy central and ESPN.</p>
<p>Yep, mine D will pull out the DVD’s of Gilmore Girls for stress relief or to help her relax to get some sleep.</p>
<p>My S has a tv in his room for the first time this year. Last year, he watched movies, etc. with kids from all over campus on the big screen in the student lounge. Now, he and his roommate are watching Packmom’s S’s shows… I told him I’d boot the tv if the grades go down (just kidding, but don’t tell him.). It felt good to use my ol’ “Mom Power” again! haha</p>
<p>I think the guys also play nintendo, maybe more than they watch tv. That same large screen tv has a Nintendo wii set up and it’s pretty popular, I think.</p>
<p>I have a personal preference as a parent…no TV…at least not freshman year and hopefully not for longer. The laptop works like a TV in many ways…film clips, Ipod downloads, news clips live, plus I read national newspapers online now.
My son got mono freshman year because he was slammed with the mulitiple social options day and night and the bedtime on the halls of dorms has slipped to the wee hours of the morning, there is FACEBOOK to suck out an hour or more, IMs to respond to, Text messaging to keep up with and cell phone calls. Also he checks out films to watch on his laptop for assignments in class…and there is always the hall TV for sports.<br>
In my day, a little bell buzzed your room if the ONE phone on the hall was for you or if someone came to call on you, they waited politely in the downstairs Parlor!!! Where we signed in and out and had curfews and also enforced study hours, at least till the 60s finally arrived a few years behind schedule at my college.<br>
He was relieved to see his roommate was glad he did not have a TV. His roommate turned out to be an expert outdoorsman who likes peace, and my son happens to listen to classical a lot.<br>
I don’t mind Gilmore Girls or baseball…but my son and his friends are too busy to watch TV and it is already hard enough to break away from electronic communications that we can barely understand as parents. Newsweek had some funny pro and con essays about FACEBOOK a couple weeks back…and one college kid admits that she is too busy looking her classmates up on FACEBOOK in the library to even look up from her laptop and introduce herself to them when they are in the library at the same time…it gets to be a social issue to not be caught peering at the FACEBOOK of a classmate…and one more reason not to get up and socialize the old fashioned way.
I freely admit that perfectly funny, wonderful successful charming students arrive with TVs and my son was prepared to accept that with no comment, but keep in mind that some roommates don’t want them.</p>
<p>My freshman year there was one tv that everyone in our side of the hall congregated around…of course it was in my room. Didn’t watch it much unless other people were. But a lot of us use tv-links instead of tv…very popular.</p>
<p>Yup. Both of them do. Socially and alone. I have to admit it!</p>
<p>D has a single; she quells her anxiety with Law and Order. (She’s gearing up for law school.) She has friends drop in to watch DVD’s.</p>
<p>S watches with entry – Heroes and House are favorites. Then he watches downloads and DVD’s on computer.</p>
<p>It used to bother me, but both got into the elite college of their choice. Part of their lives.</p>
<p>sewsbury: That really amazes me. A very stimulating environment indeed. Sounds great.</p>
<p>Both of mine watch TV nearly every day. They typically watch the news or a Tivo’d show while eating breakfast, and have friends over to watch Heroes, Comedy Central, Dirty Jobs, and some anime. They share a house while attending the same university, and it’s become the place for their friends to hang out from Friday afternoon until Saturday afternoon. There are multiple TVs, and most have game systems running all weekend.</p>
<p>we didn’t have any tv’s in common rooms at dorms, however we had some flatscreens in the sparts den area which was like a hangout on campus. one played espn, one played news, and one played something else. People didn’t really sit around and watch them, it was just on in the background. </p>
<p>we all had a tv in our dorm rooms/apartments to use for movie watching with friends.</p>
<p>Well, right now I’m not in the mood to complain about TV because DS just called to discuss tonight’s Heroes with me. We both love it! (re my screen name, discussion of the heroic is part of my pedagogy in several courses I teach.</p>
<p>Son and roommates having enjoyed watching sports, but they are in a quad with a common room. It has worked out great since doors to the bedrooms can be closed to the common room when 1 of them needs to study or sleep!</p>
<p>Yes, she does, football and baseball as a group activity, and movies and DVDs of TV shows, also usually as a group activity. No TV in her room.</p>
<p>Way back in the day when I was in college, we mostly lived in apartments after soph year, I still remember running home for lunch, watching One Life to Live, then going back to afternoon labs where everyone - guys and all - would rehash that day’s episode. That was in the Luke and Laura days. I also remember getting together with a group of friends, including my future DH, to watch the 1980 Olympics and the miracle on ice. We were so pumped up after that hockey game that we went for an hour walk, just up and down the street to work off the energy.</p>
<p>This thread made me laugh as I started reading because last year D purchased a Tivo from her summer earnings and took it as her “contribution” to the suite’s common room. As we were moving in most of the girls said they didn’t watch tv… This particular Tivo is one with capability of recording two programs at the same time and before long all six were working on the intricacies of scheduling their favorite shows. Turns out they all liked tv, just didn’t want to invest so much time (I love how Tivo lets you watch an hour show in 42 minutes!) and they wanted to watch when it was convenient like on weekends. Particular favorites were Grey’s Anatomy, The Office, and America’s Next Top Model.</p>
<p>My D, 16, just told me that she is going to base her college choices on whether they offer the “Steelers 24/7” channel in her dorm room. She’ll be staying home for the rest of her life.</p>
<p>Sewbusy my d has not watched tv once since getting to school. She & her friends plan to watch the season premiere of Scrubs so that will be the first time.</p>
<p>Cornfed, that’s more than my son will have watched. I can’t believe he has never watched tv there in over a year’s time.</p>
<p>That’s not to say he doesn’t occasionally watch DVDs on his laptop. And he certainly spends lots of time on the internet, as we continually get political email messages and links from him. He’ll start off "Hi mom, just thought I’d let you know my quiz grade Start of political commentary insert several paragraphs long which was an A-. We now have to hunt and peck any email we get from him to find out if he actually has any nonpolitical message for us. </p>
<p>Tivo is a great idea, but I don’t think I’ll mention it. I kind of like the status quo. We do tape CSI every Thursday and send him the DVD every few weeks. Strange, because when he’s home he never misses a Jon Stewart Daily Show, but all he requests is CSI.</p>
<p>D and roommate do not have a TV in their room. She goes to a friend’s room to watch The Office on Thursdays, that’s it.</p>
<p>D just called in to tell me who they voted off on Dancing with the Stars. We are heavily invested in the Red Sox-Indians series, so not watching much else. She was at her friend’s dorm and then they switched over to the game. Friend (from Ohio) very happy - Indians just took a 7-0 lead :(, but the Sox just had back-to-back homers and now it is 7-2. Hope reigns eternal here in Sox country! She is not watching much TV - but did catch Legally Blonde the Musical last weekend on MTV, as she had attended the taping a few weeks back when she won two tickets in an online lottery.</p>