Do Physics majors watch reality tv?

I don't know about Physics majors, but at least one engineer watches Parking Wars. It's kind of fun watching people get parking tickets, have their cars booted and towed, and try to get their car out of the impound lot. It's a little like watching people have strips of flesh ripped off their body, but without the blood and gore.

 

My wife and I both have degrees in physics. We don't have a TV, and we don't watch reality TV.

 

I was a math major and I don't watch reality TV. I therefor conclude that physics majors watch reality TV.

 

I have no interest in watching idiots who are on tv just because they're famous (typically most BIG network reality shows) but I watch a lot of reality beyond those on big networks. Human drama can be hilarious at times.

 

reality TV shows are painful at best

not to mention I don't have any time to sit around on the couch for hours

 

I don't own a TV, and I don't miss it.

 

Just as i wrote that a car going by honked its horn (that's exceedingly rare out here). I looked up in time to see a deer jumping over the fence into my yard - it came pretty close to being road kill.

Now that's reality!

 

I am a math major and I am a HUGE Jerry Springer fan. No matter how bad your life is, at least you've never been on the Jerry Springer show.

 

Having higher education does not mean that people share likes or dislikes. I know many well educated people who love reality TV, I know people who hate it and I know people who like some but not others. People are diverse, very diverse!

 

I don't see the relation between education and watching reality TV. For me, I find watching them unbearable. Having said that I like Dave Lambs sarcastic commentary on Come Dine With Me (U.K.).

 

I've never watched one even once.

I don't have a TV. I'm happy to see by other posts that I'm not unique.

 

I like few of them. The rest I can't stand at all.
I do watch "the Amazing race". It is pretty entertaining and makes me add some of the places they visited to my travel list.
I'm also a secret fan of survivor. It gets annoying sometimes but if for nothing else I would watch it because of the pretty locations.

 

I suppose the answer depends on what one means by 'reality' TV. If it means shows about dysfunctional celebrities, or folks performing ridiculous stunts, then probably and hopefully no.

If it means programs like PBS's NOVA, or back in the day, CBS's 21st Century (sponsored by Union Carbide, renamed from The 20th Century), then perhaps some physics and science majors watch it.

In high school, I'd watch news or movies and do homework. On weekends, I spend a lot of time in either the city library or university library researching military history, pyrotechnics and high explosives, astrophysics, and plasma, nuclear and particle physics - and the occasional foray into political history, moral philosophy and religious studies - particular eastern religions.

In university, I was too busy to watch TV. In grad school, I would watch the news, and maybe programs like Dr. Who and Star Trek, otherwise, I was doing homework, research or at a full time job.

Professionally, my TV watching is spotty - mostly movies. Otherwise, I'm at PF or doing research.

 

I'm also a physics major who doesn't have a TV. My own reality is interesting enough usually...

 

Everyone's different. Some of the hardest workers I knew at uni were the ones that liked to party hardest and most frequently. They'd also watch endless rubbish on TV for hours at night. Usually this was because they were working so hard and really needed to blow of some steam and do something totally different.

In my experience there are three ways to spend your time as a student: work, leisure, sleep. You can only pick two.

 

I have an undergrad in physics and I don't watch reality tv, or much programmed tv at all. Youtube, on the other hand...

 

My wife and I haven't paid for cable/satellite in years. We don't watch much TV, but when we do, it's something we find on Netflix (not reality shows). I'm a math major and my wife majored in women's studies.

 

Where does such curiosity come from? Why do you care about what one's interests are in his/her past time?

I watch survivor if that counts. It is no where near "crap".

 

There are different flavors of reality TV. I like and watch, American Pickers, Pawn Stars, and American Restoration as well as Counting Cars (not sure of the name) . Should make it clear that I watch them when the wife lets me turn it off of Ru Paul. I really do not know what time or day the shows are on, but if I am looking through the 50 or so channels of garbage for something, ANYTHING they are where I will stop.