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Or, how not to be a total asshole to complete strangers. Please expand.
# When in class or in the library, put your cell phone on vibrate. PLEASE.
# Entering or exiting a building: look behind you to see whether anyone else is coming through the same door in the next 5 seconds. If the door will slam in the face of the person behind you, hold it open.
# If you see someone right outside, and opening the door would involve no more effort than extending your arm, go ahead and give it a push.
#* Find a way not to be offended by those JERKS who would dare wear HATS indoors. How dare they though, right? Outrageous.
#* Find somebody who genuinely doesn't understand WHY wearing a hat indoors is considered offensive, and explain it to them in a polite and, above all, well-reasoned manner. Because, seriously, I don't get it.
#**It's not necessarily ''offensive,'' but it is ''courteous''. It's something I picked up from military customs and courtesies (and before that, teachers; and before that, parents). Two reasons: First, you can see a person's whole face/head better without a hat, and so personal interactions are more open and, well, courteous expressive without it. Second, leaving a hat and/or jacket on indoors gives the impression that the person is about to leave the building and, presumably, the people in the building with whom they are interacting. When I have a coat/hat on indoors and am talking to my parents, for instance, I'm liable to hear the expression, "hey, take off your coat and stay a while!"
# Say hello to people you meet. If someone else says hello to you, respond in kind. Bonus points for smiling while saying hello.
# Don't destroy or abuse property. Particularly not if it belongs to somebody else.
# Say "excuse me" rather than just pushing past people in a crowd or a constricted space.
# If you are in the library and feel the need to talk to someone on your cellphone, have your conversation in an area where people aren't studying nearby. Also refrain from having loud, long conversations with other people in the library when people are trying to study around you.
# If you yak or see someone yak in a place that's a bit out of the way--a basement, far-off corner, or anywhere that isn't a toilet, really--make your best effort to tell someone responsible that there's a stinky, biohazardous mess on the floor.
# Don't write things in ALL CAPS. or all lowercase, for that matter. Ever.
# When in a library, kindly turn the light off when you leave a carrel.
# Don't neck in Dining hallsAvoid egregious public displays of affection. See [[Students Who Neck in Dining Halls]]
# If you're done using a public computer, close all the windows so people know it's not in use.
# Don't sample random people's shampoo, toothpaste, face wash, etc just because it's in the bathroom.
# Thank the cardswiper people in the dining halls.