<p>I live in an apartment with 2 other roommates whom I've never met before. I'll call them X and Y. I just transferred to my university after attending a jc. See, in the beginning of the quarter, my roommates didnt watch much TV, so it was pretty nice. I tried to discuss rules about how we would watch TV at the beginning, but we hardly discussed much, X said he would go to the library if he needed to study, Y said nothing! </p>
<p>The thing is, now, 2 months after we moved in, all of a sudden, Y who had rarely watched TV is watching it alot more. Last night, I came in at 10pm and he stayed up watching until 1am! so he was probably watching alot before I came. Their watching TV for so long is a problem because I need to study and read alot (to prepare for my school's academic decathlon). Wouldnt be awkward to discuss TV usage now? considering that its well into the school year? what should I do?</p>
<p>Go to the library or somewhere else to study, or go in your room and ask them to keep it down in the living room with the tv. It's their apartment too, you don't have any right to ask them not to watch their own tv.</p>
<p>I don't think it is unreasonable for your roommate to watch tv in the living room of his apartment at night after his studying is done, as long as the volume is kept to a reasonable level. Studying can be done else where but tv watching cannot, and that seems to be how your roommate chooses to relax.</p>
<p>If you have already spent most of your day in the library, wouldn't most of your studying be done by 10 or 11 pm?</p>
<p>As a parent, I'm guessing it's not the tv that is really bothering you but that it is the issue that is symptomatic of something else.</p>
<p>Do you guys get along otherwise, or socialize together at all? Are their academic styles different than yours?</p>
<p>Dude, I don't get what you are saying. You can't close your door and study in your room for what reason? Even if, for some strange reason, you cant just bring your books on the top bunk, why not just use the bottom bunk or sit on the floor and relax? Are you saying your bedroom has no door too? I agree with boysx it seems like you have deeper issues than the TV. What if he told you to shut the light off studying after 12?</p>
<p>Um, this really should not be an issue. Find somewhere else to study if it's that much of a problem. Your roommate has the right to watch TV if he really wants to.</p>
<p>very well, I'll just spend most of the time in the library. I'll try to get earplugs also. </p>
<p>yes, our academic lifestyles are much different. I'm 4 classes, 3 upperdiv, in math and physics. Theyre taking easy workloads. I guess I'm just unhappy with the way university life has gone so far.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I sort of agree with Svenfold. It sounds a bit like you have some underlying tension about how much you perceive your roommates to be slacking off. You might want to try to just accept people's choices for what they are; clearly, doing otherwise is causing you some mental issues.</p>
<p>As to the issue of the TV, I agree with what's been said. 1 AM is not that late to watch TV; I'm normally chilling with friends until 2 or 3, and TV often plays into that. We turn it down if someone wants to get sleep (one of my friends plays baseball, and often has 5:30 AM practices, so when I'm in his room [a triple with a common room] chilling with his roommates we keep the volume on the TV down), but if somebody wants to study and wants quiet for it, they go to the library.</p>
<p>I suggest you do the same; rooms are for living in. If you can study there, great, but it's unreasonable to expect your roommates to contort their schedules/lives to accommodate your studying, which could be done equally well or better at a library.</p>
<p>Yes, I'd have to agree with most of the other comments. Staying up to 1AM is not really that late by college standards. When I lived in a dorm, very few people were in bed at that hour so I don't think someone staying up late watching TV till 1 is a big issue. On most people finished work by 10 or 11 and then watched TV, played video games and the like.</p>
<p>Yeah i agree... watching it til around 3-4 maybe more problematic but 1 is not that late... since some people stay up all night doing nothing and watching tv.</p>
<p>It sounds liike you are generally unhappy at school. What is it that really is bothering you? Maybe you need more help with these issues than the fact that a roommate watches tv when he is done studying.</p>
<p>see the thing is, I brought the TV, yet I watch it the least since I'm not a potato couch. So I figure that maybe I have the authority to tell them to stop watching</p>
<p>TV is no fun when one of your roommates hates you for no reason</p>
<p>Your comment "...So I figure that maybe I have the authority to tell them to stop watching..." is not the solution to your problem. It may be your TV but it is their room as well. If you try to tell them what to do, it is just going to cause more problems.</p>
<p>You should focus your efforts on finding a roommate with similar interests and a similar schedule as you. </p>
<p>Use the library (as others have suggested previously) that is best place for studying without distractions. Plus, you never know, you might meet a future roommate in the library!</p>
<p>Stay focused on your courses, and try to get along with your roommates as best you can until you get a new one.</p>
<p>In our apartment, we use headphones for the TV. The TV has to have a headphone jack -- not all of them do -- or you could hook it up to a receiver. The headphones make life so much easier for everyone.</p>