Roughly every time I walk into my suite or apartment, the television is on constantly in the living room, even if no one is watching it. Perhaps my suitemates just cannot stand complete silence and need it to always be on. I wake up to the noises of the TV and I fall asleep to that same noise or sometimes that of the radio or a CD. It has not bothered me in the past, but now I notice it all the time. If I wanted to read in silence, I would have to let everyone know I was going to read and turn the radio and TV off. As I observe my suitemates' reading habits, some surprise me. I would have never thought that my suitemates--as smart as they are--could be so alliterate, nor did I realize how much time some of them spend reading, and how...