<p>I was talking to a friend of mine, and she's afraid of things getting stolen from our rooms at Penn. She's going to be in a high rise, and is concerned that her valuables (jewelry, etc) may be at risk of thievery without getting a safe.
I was just wondering- is this an issue at Penn? I remember at Penn Preview Days, one guy who showed us his room had a safe and (if i recall correctly) was talking about how that was a service Penn offered. Could anyone senior to me shed light on this?</p>
<p>Several kids do not lock their doors. It’s very nice to be able to walk in and out of your room and have your friends come and visit at any time, but the fun ends when all your stuff goes missing. This doesn’t really happen often, but I remember reading a story somewhere of one of the high rises getting robbed by someone who just went door-to-door, checking the locks during winter break. If your friend locks her door and has common sense with her valuables in her room, she should be fine. </p>
<p>Some rooms do have individual safes, but they charge extra for that (of course).</p>
<p>The safes cost a ridiculous amount of money and they are definitely not worth it. I lived in English House and never locked my door (yeah, I was that girl that just didn’t care), and it was never a problem. This is, of course, kind of idiotic, but it’s okay. As long as you lock your door, things like this will never be a problem. The safe is legitimately useless. And someone in the above post that checks door to door for unlocked rooms honestly just needs to learn to be a better person and get a life.</p>
<p>But yeah, basically, if the door’s locked, you’re pretty much golden, like at any other school.</p>
<p>ditto on locking your doors. it’s surprising how many students here leave their doors unlocked and things out in the open, literally begging for them to be stolen. if you use common sense you should be completely fine. same situation at any school, no matter how safe a college may claim to be.</p>
<p>If you have a roommate, be sure to establish ground rules for the year. With my roommate/s , we established early on that 1. doors would always be set to automatically lock, and 2. they would never be let open if no one was in the room, even if the person was just going down the hall for a second. You don’t have to be so uptight of course, but save yourself a crazy fight of finger-pointing if something ever did happen.</p>