College and TV

As a lad growing up in Queensland, I couldn't get enough TV. Now I rarely watch the thing. In fact, our flat* hasn't had a TV for the last month or so. No worries. Thinking back now, I watched TV regularly in highschool and then almost completely stopped when I came to university. Since there were more, let's say, entertaining activities to do, TV become sort of irrelevant at college.

My flatmate's girlfriend agrees. She says she grew up in country Victoria watching stupid amounts of TV and then suddenly stopped when she too came to college. Is this a sign that college (and getting drunk) reduces your level of TV watching? There should be studies done. College effectively cured my need for watching TV. Sure, I may have picked up one or two other naughty habbits on the way like binge-drinking, but it can't be bad as watching the idiot box all day long, can it?

*Do Brits say flats or apartments? I forget which. Seppos must say apartment.