<p>I'm a senior in high school and I was basically wondering what percentage of people have a TV in college in their dorm. I feel like it would be kind of odd living without a TV. I don't really want to necessarily shell out a large amount of cash for one though (please have one roommate!). To a lesser degree I was wondering about video games. I play video games a decent amount now, but I don't want to bring my system to college them be rendered a gaming nerd my first semester. I have a younger brother so I'm sure he'd be happy if I didn't bring it. So how many people have TV's/video games in college?</p>
<p>My college might not be typical, but we don't have cable in the rooms so most students don't have a TV. But every dorm has a common room with a cable TV. Interestingly, the college was going to put cable into the student rooms but the student body decided that they did not want cable - it would distract them too much. Most students watch DVDs on their laptops or stream shows online. </p>
<p>Few students have game systems because video games are just so time consuming. The one person I know who plays a lot of video games openly admits that playing has a negative impact on her grades because it makes her forget to go to class and procrastinate on assignments, but she enjoys playing so much that she doesn't care.</p>
<p>I had a small TV in my dorm room (~13"), and also bought a TV tuner card for my computer so I could record shows. I think most people in my dorms had a small tv. There was a TV in the common room that was ALWAYS on, but good luck getting control of the remote. I watch TV a lot, even when I study (I need the noise, and my grades were fine btw).
I knew one person who brought DDR and hooked it up to the TV in the common room, and other people played computer games. I think that is fairly common as well - people need entertainment. I'm not a gamer myself, but most of my friends have some sort of game console now we're not in dorms.</p>
<p>I have a TV in my room while my roomie has a Wii and a computer monitor set up to look like a TV. Neither of us use either very much, to be honest, although I like to set my TV on the History Channel occasionally for background noise when I'm studying. A friend of mine does have a TV and a DVD player, and we often congregate in her room to watch movies or particular TV shows as a group. </p>
<p>We do get free cable in the dorms, which is nice. There's also a big TV in each hall's common area (two per floor), so even if you don't have a TV and don't know anyone with one you can still watch it. </p>
<p>With regards to gaming, neither myself nor my roomie were big on gaming ever, which might be why it hasn't seen that much use. That and we both study/do other things too much to bother to unpack it and set it up, since it normally lives in a laundry hamper under my roommate's bed. It did get used more at the beginning of semester, when we were more prone to having interesting people over to play it.</p>
<p>When I lived in the dorms, we had free cable which was nice. We had a standard sized tv. We didn't really watch it THAT much though. We usually only would watch like, Lost or other weekly shows, and that was about it. Usually if we were bored, we would go online and do stuff instead of watch tv. But a tv is convenient for having people over to watch movies.
I live by myself in an off-campus studio apt and I don't have cable. I watch tv either at my best friend's house, the house of the guy I'm dating, or I just find shows online. (like nbc.com has Heroes episodes up the next day, so not a big deal)</p>
<p>TV and Video Games are a college essential for guys imo. What do you think guys do before they go out at night? Lots of 32-42" HD TV's. XBOX 360 is system of choice. </p>
<p>No one is going to brand you a gaming nerd. It's college, not high school.</p>
<p>TVS are really cheap these days just go look for one at a garage sale. I bought my TV with VCR for 10 dollars.</p>
<p>TVS are really cheap these days just go look for one at a garage sale. I bought my TV with VCR for 10 dollars.</p>
<p>Many seem to have a TV in their room. The colleges that my kids attend have free cable in the room. Neither brought their game system to school--gaming isn't all that important to them.</p>
<p>I do not and never have known of anyone who didn't have a TV in their dorm/apartment, and I can't really think of any guys without some sort of gaming system (except hardcore PC gamers.)</p>
<p>TVs in the dorms are common. Video game systems, not so much, from what I've seen. Neither get too much use, but it's nice to be able to watch some television when you've got nothing else to do. </p>
<p>Just make sure you've got a place to put it. The television my roommate and I brought to school is a little too big for our dorm room, and it was a major problem, trying to figure out a place where we could put it, both see it, and still connect it to the cable outlet.</p>
<p>I brought my HDTV and Xbox 360 (necessity! rock band/cod4 parties ftw) and we have cable hookups in the dorm but I rarely actually watch cable TV. Most of the time my tv is used to play games or watch DVD's.</p>
<p>Do not bring tv or gaming system to college if you know they will distract you from studying. You will have a lot of studying to do aside from going to class.</p>
<p>We have a small TV and a Wii that my parents gave me for my birthday. We don't play it tons, mostly on the weekends, and we don't watch that much TV, but it's nice to have.</p>
<p>everyone on my floor has big screen tv's and xbox's. I had never played xbox before, but my roommate brought his and now I am spending 5-6 hours a week playing halo 3</p>
<p>It would be helpful if people said which college they are attending.</p>
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<p>This is a myth. There really isn't no difference between high school and college in that regard. Maybe if you're high school was a slacking high school, than it's true, but you are in class a lot less (about 20-25 hours less), and then there is no busy work homework, just reading, problem sets, papers.</p>