My mom drove down to Bloomington this morning in order to bring me home to Lafayette for the weekend. I was excited to see my family again, but soon found myself at a loss of things to do. The typical away-from-college boredom set in, and I was forced to resort to flipping through TV channels over and over again until I found something adequate to watch...
I remember watching soooo much television over the summer and throughout high school. Perhaps this is because I was still living with my parents in an extremely boring environment. Now that I've moved away (although only 2 hours south), I find that I rarely choose to watch TV. I bought a TV with money received at my grad party and thought that this would be a really good decision. Now that I have interesting people on my floor to talk to, plenty of homework to keep myself occupied, a new laptop to surf the web with, and a huge college campus with tons of awesome non-television alternatives, I find that the remote has gathered dust on my desktop as it continued to go unused.
While I don't watch much TV at IU, I find the amount that I do watch (maybe 30 minutes a day) is at a completely different time than what I used to watch at home. I particularly enjoy watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, both airing after 11:00 PM. I feel like at least I am gaining some basic political insight through these choices rather than gaining nothing from the garbage I would watch at home. I have begun to see a completely new side to today's Big Media.
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It needs to be said that you don't watch TV in your room because you watch CR and DS, as well as VERONICA MARS (:D, which you just explained watching in your previous post) in other people's rooms, rather than your own.
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