Watching TV with your roommates makes you smarter.

For the past couple days I have been watching a lot of TV, but not just by myself, with one of my suite-mates.  We watch the same shows every night. We start off with whatever popular show is one, such as Grey's Anatomy, and just flip through the channels until we watch our two episodes of Friends, Sex and the City, Will and Grace, then maybe some According to Jim and Scrubs. Every night we do this, and every night it gets better. While the shows may not seem very educational, watching them with someone else can be very rewarding. During the shows, if something interesting comes up, we will most likely talk about it, like why the only thing four women do is sit around and talk about their sex lives.  A lot of the time, the conversations carry off into things greater then just the TV show, and we end up learning from each other, whether it is facts about the world or just something that the other person did the previous month.  It also helps us connect in ways that we couldn't normally do. Like, I wouldn't just go up to her and start talking about hospitals and why people do the things they do while working, such as the janitor playing a practical joke on one of the interns. So TV does, in fact, make you smarter because it teaches you things and also, while you might not think so, promotes conversation and interaction with others. Talking with your roommates about issues TV shows bring up can  change the way you look at how things work or why they are that way.