<p>What are your opinions or experience at UCSD and its likelihood for your personal belongings being stolen? Clothes stolen from laundry room? Laptops being stolen from dorms?</p>
<p>Rate it from a scale of 1-100%.
(100% being you feel completely safe about your personal belongings at UCSD 1% vice versa)</p>
<p>And if you rate it anywhere below 80% please do tell how you manage to secure your items.</p>
<p>Any tips is good too!</p>
<p>None of my stuff was stolen but I did meet several people who had clothes stolen from the laundry room (even some loads that were just underwear and socks! what gives? :/) and other various items stolen from their room.
You don’t need to do anything to secure your items (I brought a locking file cabinet and even that was overkill) except just LOCK YOUR DOOR. Make sure your roommate is good about locking the door too. Even if you leave for 2 minutes to run upstairs, lock the door. And be in the laundry room when your clothes come out of the washer and are done in the dryer.</p>
<p>Well I lived on a higher floor, so our likelihood of stolen items was probably less. There hasn’t been anything about stolen clothes I’ve heard of, though people often move other people’s loads onto the tables or into other machines when they grow impatient of waiting after a load is done which might lead to the thought the clothes is missing or if they dropped a piece. There has only been to my knowledge some laundry baskets or detergent taken. Dorms is a really low chance I believe unless it’s a prank, since our suite doors lock automatically and everyone would normally notice a stranger lurking around in our suite if a stranger happened in, but unless you leave it open all the time there’s a really low chance anybody but your suitemates or roommates could steal something. And lock your room door when you leave and that should bring it to only your roommate. I have heard of this girl who had a crazy roommate who would literally steal her stuff and other people’s stuff, so you can’t completely eliminate that. But for me I just bought a simple lock like the ones you use for lockers and on my desk there’s a drawer you can lock with a lock that perfectly fits my laptop (it was a thin small 13" model though), other small electronics, and all my important documents, and I’d secure it in there when I left the room for extended periods of time. I also rarely locked my room though. My safety rating would be about 85%, but with proper pre-cautions closer to 90%+.</p>
<p>You should be fine as long as you’re not dumb about it. I mean, no one wants their stuff stolen, so why would they steal others’? Just don’t be propping your suite door open with your room door open/unlocked when no one’s around. (That’s illegal or something anyway.)</p>
<p>Public places, including the libraries–or is it library, now that only Geisel will be open?–are a totally different story. Don’t EVER leave your stuff alone, even if you ask that kid at a table next to you to watch it.</p>
<p>Oh yeah that reminds me like the previous post said public places are like fair game, especially for stuff like bikes. Even ones with locks get stolen so make sure if you bring one, bring it inside when you can and use the legit locks, the legit u-lock ones not the wire ones. I’ve also heard of some car burglaries, where people break into cars and take stuff, so be careful not to leave important stuff unwatched.</p>
<p>Very insightful reviews, what college community do you guys reside in?</p>
<p>I worked at Geisel and every few weeks someone would report a stolen laptop, there were warning signs about common laptop thefts posted in all the elevators but people never learned. Just be smart about it, even if it’s just to go to the bathroom, take the extra 2 minutes to pack up and take expensive items with you.</p>
<p>ive hear about laundry being stolen (not very often, and mostly girls would say it), nothing from rooms/suites (unless there was a weird room mate, in which it was normally figured out later), definitely bikes being stolen (i was near a place where bikes were locked up, and i often heard people going into rage because most of their bike was gone), and just like public places like someone posted above had said. that’s free game–doesnt matter where you are really. i wouldnt even leave my backpack in my seat during lecture if i had to getup to pee unless i had a friend there.</p>
<p>I’m in muir. We just new locks last quarter for our suites, ones where you need your student id and a personal pin code but auto-lock except when you deadbolt it but that damages it and we’re not allowed to. But some of the other colleges might just have the lock and key. We kind of preferred it the old way better since it was easier to leave the doors unlocked for visitors, but i guess its safer this way :/.</p>
<p>Most of the time leaving stuff around in your dorm area is totally fine. I’ve even left my stuff unattended in the library a few times and was totally fine. Laundry is typically not a problem. That being said, I know quite a few people who have had laptops/phones/miscellaneous valuable gadgets stolen. </p>
<p>As for the suites in Muir, you’re not allowed to deadbolt the doors but everyone does so anyways (it’s easier to move in between your dorm and the lounge). The administration gets angry when it finds out, though. Also, I must admit that sometimes strange people come lurking in your suite.</p>
<p>My suite was seriously lax about security, and I lived on the third floor (ground floor) of the Marshall dorms. We left the patio door unlocked all year until the reported kidnappings spring quarter, and even then people just made a halfhearted effort. Maybe we were just lucky in our ignorance, because people would walk out and go to class leaving their room door wide open. </p>
<p>Within the suite, nothing got stolen: I had great suitemates, and the only problems we had were misplaced things. We were studying in the suite late one night and in the morning someone packed my stuff into their bag xD Outside the suite, as everyone else said, is a different story. Someone cut the lock off my roommate’s bike and stole it. One of my friends left his detergent in the laundry room for a few minutes to go back and get quarters, and next thing he knew it was gone.</p>
<p>Just be smart about things. Never leave your things in the laundry room and pick up your clothes within five minutes (don’t leave them in the washer/dryer for more than the 15min grace period, people are busy and tend to dump them out). Brings your things to the bathroom with you in the library, or study with a friend and have them watch your stuff. In general, never leave your things unattended at any time.</p>
<p>I would say the school safety is 95%+ especially if you keep a close eye on things outside the suite and remember to lock your door (and tell the roomies to do the same). It’s better to be safe than sorry. Though I left my patio+room door unlocked pretty much 24/7 the entire year and got nothing stolen, I wouldn’t recommend that sort of behavior :(</p>
<p>oh yeah, CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS, especially if you’re on the lower floors. The building next to me had a break in when the intruder popped the screen off an open window.</p>
<p>Be smart. That’s what I have to say.</p>