I'm not a polite person. When I first got to Dartmouth I was shocked by everyone's good manners: strangers held the door for each other here and no one would steal your laptop from the library even if you leave for four hours straight. (Full disclosure: I'm from New York.)I'm not saying we're formal to each other, but our campus is so small that we gotta act nice enough to all peacefully coexist. (Though on the topic of classic rules, Elizabeth Post, the granddaughter-inlaw of etiquette writer Emily Post died last week.) However, during midterms all this polite behavior goes out the window. Exams make animals of us all. No one has time to waste on courtesies and after a few days of minimal sleep it doesn't take much to make a person snap. So during this time of the term it is all the more important to go over etiquette at Dartmouth I'm not talking about table manners here, just simple rules of decency. The topic is so monumental that this week The Mirror is even bigger than usual. That's right, I know that you noticed we were looking larger and were too nice say anything.
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