Reality TV is a "Big Fat Obnoxious.." thorn in my side. It shows that deceiving people is fun and a prize is involved for breaking hearts. It closes the door on intelligent television, but opens the window to sinful obscenity. No one wants to see a fat man dance in his underwear, nor do we want to see people attempt to eat cow eyeballs for a cash prize. No wonder the average human only uses ten percent of the brain.

According to the Washington D.C. based Center for Media, most people, by the age of 70, will have watched ten years of television. Television has evolved to watching people force themselves to do impossible stunts or meet twenty-five guys and slowly narrow it down to three, in hopes to fall in love with one of them. If that's the case, count me out of the ten-year plan.

I don't see the intellectual value in watching a starving person on a desert island or listening to someone else's argument with a boyfriend that cheated and she wanted to diss him on national television.

"Most Reality TV is dumb," junior Jenna Carbajal said.

Not only is this not entertaining, it isn't funny, intelligent or comforting. What happened to the cute little shows like "The Cosby Show" or "Happy Days"? I loved when I would chew on my fingernails to see if "The Fonz" would yet again help Richie solve his "girl problems."

It all started with MTV's the "Real World" with raw emotions and real people. It's really drama disguised as reality.

"All that fake stuff is boring because you know what's going to happen. They live happily ever after," junior Loretta Cruz said.

All the creators are doing is creating conflict by forcing totally opposite people live in the same house while the viewers watch live two months in overly dramatic situations.

"It degrades our society because everyone thinks that they can party every night and have no self-discipline. You have to do real work and earn real money and earn the right to party," sophomore Candace Russ said.

Then there started to be copycats, the sanctity of the plotline depleting with each look alike. Now people's love lives and welfare are what is now Reality TV. Shows like "Elimidate" and Dismissed" show that using one's good looks and flirting so much that it makes the audience nauseous, can get one a date.

There are shows in which one relatively attractive man must lie to women and tell them he is filthy rich, when in actuality, he is middle class like the rest of us. The theme in that particular show is supposed to be "Love conquers all" but who will fall in love in a matter of six months with the glamorization of cameras floating around? The glimmer of fame blocks the reality of the situation for these shows.

"It's a waste of time because we already live in reality. I don't know why people watch it," freshman Michael Williams said.

If you want to tune into the real world, (not the "Real World") you may need to remove yourself from the couch. Life is waiting to be enjoyed.