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Apparently the ridiculous amount of reality T.V. shows already clogging MTV aren’t enough. Besides great T.V. viewing like “A Doubleshot At Love,” “From G’s to Gents” and “The Girls of Hedsor Hall,” the station, formerly known as Music Television is adding a new one: “College Life.” The show–which is billed as “real” not to be confused with reality T.V.–is told through four freshman college students as they chronicle their first year of higher education. Sounds like an interesting concept, and it could work, unless MTV decides to take its own spin and keeps only the juicy details. After all, juicy details like getting caught drinking in the dorms and having sex with a random stranger are MUCH more exciting than going to your first class or meeting your roommate for the first time. That’s what sells; not real life. If I had been given a video camera for my freshman year, it would have consisted of many firsts: first kisses, first gay friend, first time drinking, first time away from home, first (and last) time in a sorority, first tattoo, first cigarette, first journalism class and first time sleeping in a box outside (long story.) Who knows, maybe the “College Life” will surprise me. Lord knows I’ll be watching along with every other pathetic sap.