Lately I've been noticing around campus that there has been quite a few common courtesies people are neglecting to follow.

Although most common courtesies are unwritten, I feel that we should be reminded of them every once in awhile. I am going to share a few incidents I had this month that make me wonder, what happened to common courtesy?

Picture this: it is a nice windy fall day and you are walking to class when all of a sudden you feel something like mist hitting your face. It is not raining. Not a cloud in the sky. Instead the guy walking in front of you just spit into the air, aiming for the ground but because of the slight wind that day it took a different direction. Yes, this has happened to me.

Instead of hacking your spit into the air, how about you just don't? I'll never understand why guys and some girls feel the need to just spit anywhere they please. It may be acceptable anywhere else, but can you not do that on a college campus?

Another lovely common courtesy that has been lost is walking on the right side of the sidewalk. Numerous times I am walking on the correct side of the sidewalk trying to get to class, but someone feels the need to walk on the wrong side and nearly run into me. There are two sides of the sidewalk for a reason, please walk on the right side. It will prevent us from staring each other down until one of us has to dart out of the way so we don't run into each other.

And now we move into common courtesies of living in a dorm. It was 12 a.m., I just laid down to sleep and suddenly my door to my room starts to shake. And I mean shake. The people above me, who always sound like they put on the heaviest boots they can find and stomp all day long, were moving furniture. At 12 a.m. on a Wednesday night. Go to bed.

Lastly, the common courtesy that irritates me to no end is when people do not hold the door open. I live in a residence hall, where we have cards that we use to swipe into the building. A lot of the time people press the handicapped button to open the door, and don't hold the door open if they see someone behind them. How hard is it to wait two seconds to hold the door while I'm two feet away? Instead, they just head on into the building while the door closes right when I approach it.

This is also the case when people don't hold the door while going into buildings for classes. You've got plenty of time to get to class, why not hold the door open for someone right behind you? Common courtesy: please practice it.