Should I buy a tv for my dorm

[browneyes124]

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I keep getting mixed responses about this. My friends that are pre med students and already in college and they say that I'll want a TV because even though I'll be busy ( 19 credit hours) but I will have free time and than I'll be bored. My boyfriend doesn't think I should get one cause it'll be a distraction. Also I have an apartment style room where I have my own room and my roommate has hers but we share a common area. If I did get one and was watching it at night do you think the sound would travel a lot through the walls?

 

[Holmwood]

I keep getting mixed responses about this. My friends that are pre med students and already in college and they say that I'll want a TV because even though I'll be busy ( 19 credit hours) but I will have free time and than I'll be bored. My boyfriend doesn't think I should get one cause it'll be a distraction. Also I have an apartment style room where I have my own room and my roommate has hers but we share a common area. If I did get one and was watching it at night do you think the sound would travel a lot through the walls?

Just stream vids on the computer. TV is basically obsolete. A relic of the olden days.

Unless you want to ps4 like a sap, then fine. But you said you won't have much time, and with 19 credits you don't want to be tempted to veg out. Not to mention paying extra for TV every month...

 

[genericpremedstudent]

i'm not sure what your dorms policy is, but here is the issue with my school: dorms aren't equipped for cable. you can not install your own cable. you are not allowed to install your own internet service or router, they IT department searches for routers and you will get kicked out of the dorm if you use one. therefore, you are at the mercy of the school's network for stream tv shows. which they explicitly say is against the rules. big reason why i decided to not live on campus.

 

[WedgeDawg]

It depends on how well you think you can manage your time. If you are prone to distraction, then it might not be a good idea, but if you're made more productive by having an opportunity to goof off, then go for it.

I personally thoroughly enjoyed having a TV all 4 years of college. How else would I get my GTA/Call of Duty/Super Smash Bros fix? However, I'm an all or nothing type of student where when I'm working, I'm working and when I'm goofing off, I'm goofing off, so it was easy for me to separate the two.

 

[md-2020]

I keep getting mixed responses about this. My friends that are pre med students and already in college and they say that I'll want a TV because even though I'll be busy ( 19 credit hours) but I will have free time and than I'll be bored. My boyfriend doesn't think I should get one cause it'll be a distraction. Also I have an apartment style room where I have my own room and my roommate has hers but we share a common area. If I did get one and was watching it at night do you think the sound would travel a lot through the walls?

Don't get a TV. I bought one and watched it maybe 2 times my entire college career. I watched shows on my laptop like every week, though.

 

[panda16]

I haven't had a TV for the last three years of school. Honestly I just never watch it, the only show I watch is South Park which they stream online hah

 

[HarryH00d]

No...Just become friends with the kid who has a TV and N64...And then master every short cut on Mario Kart 64.

 

[genericpremedstudent]

if you dont get a tv then how else would you watch House and Grey's Anatomy to know you want to be a doctor?

 

[md-2020]

if you dont get a tv then how else would you watch House and Grey's Anatomy to know you want to be a doctor?

The Internet, brah

 

[KaBoom'd]

Get a small tv that can double as an external monitor. It will change your life.

 

[Spector1]

Just get a big like 24 inch computer monitor and hook your laptop up to it.

 

[efle]

We use our TV a ton, get chromecast and now you can all sit out on the common area couch watching game of thrones / house of cards / movies / sportsball / youtube / etc via your laptop in the other room. Also can invest in a decent sound system that makes for some great parties.

Cable is stupid though don't do that

 

[Doug Underhill]

Undergrad isn't going to be 24/7 studying: you need something to unwind with. I wouldn't recommend taking 19 credits every semester: you get nothing for doing that by adcoms and it makes it harder to maintain a 4.0. Take 15 credits per semester and try to get an A in each and every one of them.

 

[698344]

Undergrad isn't going to be 24/7 studying: you need something to unwind with. I wouldn't recommend taking 19 credits every semester: you get nothing for doing that by adcoms and it makes it harder to maintain a 4.0. Take 15 credits per semester and try to get an A in each and every one of them.

We found our best friend Doug!!

 

[Grace184]

I did, but we hardly used it bc my friend had a better one down the Hall. Make friends with that guy

 

[mehc012]

We use our TV a ton, get chromecast and now you can all sit out on the common area couch watching game of thrones / house of cards / movies / sportsball / youtube / etc via your laptop in the other room. Also can invest in a decent sound system that makes for some great parties.

Cable is stupid though don't do that

This plus N64 = gold.
Our dorm had free cable for common rooms (one common room joining every 2-4 singles into a suite) and we still never used it. Why? We had Netflix, free DVD rental from the school library, and the N64!

 

[efle]

This plus N64 = gold.
Our dorm had free cable for common rooms (one common room joining every 2-4 singles into a suite) and we still never used it. Why? We had Netflix, free DVD rental from the school library, and the N64!

PC master race sorry man
Drunken gaming of choice is dota2 with the water polo guys
Smashed smash brothers is fun too though

 

[HarryH00d]

PC master race sorry man
Drunken gaming of choice is dota2 with the water polo guys
Smashed smash brothers is fun too though

And the babes really DIG dota2. So you got that going for you, which is nice.

 

[mehc012]

PC master race sorry man
Drunken gaming of choice is dota2 with the water polo guys
Smashed smash brothers is fun too though

Smashed smash is the best!
I hate PC gaming, probably because my family has never owned a desktop and so I find non-touchpad mouses ridiculously hard to use...I refuse to even try anymore.

Also, I really dislike online gaming and refuse to ever pay for it. Split screen is the only vs. worth playing (and the only one not a ripoff, too...no I won't buy a subscription or a second console just to play with my friend, what kind of bullcrap is that?!) Talking to someone via a mike is just not the same as hanging out in the same room playing. There's a reason that the N64 is so popular in college dorms...it's cheap, sure, and durable. But mostly it's because you can hang out in a group irl and play games together, egg each other on, cheer, heckle, make the loser fetch drinks, etc!

 

[efle]

Smashed smash is the best!
I hate PC gaming, probably because my family has never owned a desktop and so I find non-touchpad mouses ridiculously hard to use...I refuse to even try anymore.

Also, I really dislike online gaming and refuse to ever pay for it. Split screen is the only vs. worth playing (and the only one not a ripoff, too...no I won't buy a subscription or a second console just to play with my friend, what kind of bullcrap is that?!) Talking to someone via a mike is just not the same as hanging out in the same room playing. There's a reason that the N64 is so popular in college dorms...it's cheap, sure, and durable. But mostly it's because you can hang out in a group irl and play games together, egg each other on, cheer, heckle, make the loser fetch drinks, etc!

that's great for whoever is over and wants to play! Something like a dota match where you and four good friends each with 1000+ hours experience have to work together for an hour is just a different experience. Also the teamwork part is a whole extra dimension lots of the same roles in the pool surface in the matches. N64 stuff, CoD/halo whatever doesn't nearly scratch that itch

 

[mehc012]

that's great for whoever is over and wants to play! Something like a dota match where you and four good friends each with 1000+ hours experience have to work together for an hour is just a different experience. Also the teamwork part is a whole extra dimension lots of the same roles in the pool surface in the matches. N64 stuff, CoD/halo whatever doesn't nearly scratch that itch

Fair - I've never tried dota (still hate physical mice!)
For a coop experience, I'd take any of the older Ghost Recons over CoD/Halo anyday though. Split screen, so my partner and I can talk right there. Open map, but without the annoyingly repetitive visuals and 'takes 80 bullets to die' enemies of Halo. There are reasonable numbers of enemies spread throughout the map in a sensible fashion...you can one-shot, head shot, frag, whatever you like...but so can they. Tackling a military base with a few outlying posts and some Jeep/foot patrols in the woods is great - totally requires some recon, strategizing, and decent shooting, and you'd better hope there's not some nearby patrol that you didn't account for! If you get bored on a map, you just try going from the east instead of the west and everything changes!

 

[deleted393595]

Fair - I've never tried dota (still hate physical mice!)
For a coop experience, I'd take any of the older Ghost Recons over CoD/Halo anyday though. Split screen, so my partner and I can talk right there. Open map, but without the annoyingly repetitive visuals and 'takes 80 bullets to die' enemies of Halo. There are reasonable numbers of enemies spread throughout the map in a sensible fashion...you can one-shot, head shot, frag, whatever you like...but so can they. Tackling a military base with a few outlying posts and some Jeep/foot patrols in the woods is great - totally requires some recon, strategizing, and decent shooting, and you'd better hope there's not some nearby patrol that you didn't account for! If you get bored on a map, you just try going from the east instead of the west and everything changes!

Oh man. That brings back memories of Halo PC before it died. I used to play competitive at a high level, and our matches were insane because all of us could get 3-shot-kill with pistols and 1-hit-kill headshots with sniper rifles at close/long/whatever range. Outside of competitive, my favorite memory is of holding the ledge solo on Danger Canyon. With my sniper rifle on the ledge, it would typically go like this:

1) See a hog incoming with three guys in it. Also see an enemy sniper in tunnels and a dude with a fuel rod gun.
2) Headshot gunner off warthog. Crouch to dodge enemy sniper shot. Headshot enemy sniper. Lob grenade across the valley at fuel rod guy.
3) Jump to avoid fuel rods landing at my position. Look below and headshot passenger in warthog below while in mid-jump.
4) Land. Switch to pistol and eliminate fuel rod guy.
5) Switch to sniper. Fast reload by meleeing mid-reload sequence. Two shots to finish off the driver.

This was usually followed by the enemy team screaming in chat that I was botting, and then being kicked off the server 😛

 

[browneyes124]

i'm not sure what your dorms policy is, but here is the issue with my school: dorms aren't equipped for cable. you can not install your own cable. you are not allowed to install your own internet service or router, they IT department searches for routers and you will get kicked out of the dorm if you use one. therefore, you are at the mercy of the school's network for stream tv shows. which they explicitly say is against the rules. big reason why i decided to not live on campus.

oh that sucks. My school has cables and stuff. On the dorm list they even have tv but not as an essential

 

[browneyes124]

Undergrad isn't going to be 24/7 studying: you need something to unwind with. I wouldn't recommend taking 19 credits every semester: you get nothing for doing that by adcoms and it makes it harder to maintain a 4.0. Take 15 credits per semester and try to get an A in each and every one of them.

I cant. I have to have a minimal of 17 hours at my school or i get kicked out of the pre med program

 

[Pusheen]

I didn't have a tv in the dorms, I just used my laptop. When i watched tv with friends on weekends, we would just plug a laptop into the communal dorm tv (that didn't have cable or anything) and stream movies.
We would often use projectors in the classrooms too on the weekends when they weren't in use.

Your own TV isnt really necessary IMO

 

[md-2020]

i'm not sure what your dorms policy is, but here is the issue with my school: dorms aren't equipped for cable. you can not install your own cable. you are not allowed to install your own internet service or router, they IT department searches for routers and you will get kicked out of the dorm if you use one. therefore, you are at the mercy of the school's network for stream tv shows. which they explicitly say is against the rules. big reason why i decided to not live on campus.

Do you go to school in North Korea or something?

 

[Meeehai]

Get the TV, they're cheap and you'll want to have a larger screen than your laptop to watch stuff on. Freshman classes are easy So you'll definitely have the time. Unless you don't plan on having any friends, its awkward to watch something on a laptop unless you're trying to cuddle with them. I'm a sports fan though so my answer may be biased

I agree, it's fun to invite people over to watch some football or whatever else is on. TV is a better experience with other people in my opinion. Anyway, anything can be a distraction if you can't dedicate time and focus on your studies. Besides, it's college, have some fun.

 

[Gibbward]

When I was in college, I went dumpster diving around my campus after the school year ended and ended up with a fully functioning tv for free! Maybe you should try your luck with that!

 

[genericpremedstudent]

Do you go to school in North Korea or something?

I should clarify that my school has old (early 1900's) apartments that are unfurnished and newer, furnished, traditional dorms. This rule applies to the former. When I asked about the cable situation, I was told that is was due to the building being so old, that they couldn't wire it for cable properly. Total BS, but still. That and the fact that the school can do random dorm searches led me to remain off campus. Plus my rent is $300/mo cheaper for essentially an identical apartment. Plus the dorms are like 12 floors without an elevator

 

[VitaminVater]

OP is forgetting a very important point.

No TV= No "Netflix and chill"