Just a few hours after my iPhone was stolen yesterday, I came back to my dorm to find a man installing a steel-frame door with bars. I’m not sure if this was my school’s way of responding to the incident — I was pickpocketed on the street, after all — but it’s an interesting solution given my dorm already has a metal door with three locks. And bars on all my windows. And a bao an (security guard) that has to buzz me in everytime I come to the building.
Better safe than sorry, I guess.


Bridget O'Donnell, 24, is a designer for the