Everyone on our floor (except Becky, cuz she's never here) went out to this restaurant about a 20 minute walk off campus where we had desserts around 9:45pm until 11:30pm. The ten of us had a blast.
Then when we got back, Katie across the hall discovered that someone had broken into her window and stolen her laptop.
We're on the ground level and some of us usually keep our window's open to let in the cool evening air (like Kristen and me). Katie had left her window open a crack and someone came in and stole her laptop.
They had cut the netting off the window frame, slid the window open and crawled in. They pulled the laptop free of it's lock and took off with it.
Something like this has only happened once in the past seven years. Why the person picked Katie's room, I'm not sure, but I think it's because the parking lot is on that side of the building so the thief could have easily parked in front of the window and driven off with it.
We all think it had to have been someone from our residence. Someone had to have known that we were all going out together at 9pm because we had messages posted in our little hallways of our little exhibition off campus.
We just feel so bad for Katie. She's only had her laptop for three weeks. She just got it!
It makes me want to be more careful now too, since I have a small laptop and a tablet that my German 203 class lended out to me. My room mate Kristen has a laptop too. If someone came into our room, they'd get three computers. It would really suck for me, cuz I paid $1500 (includes two extra years of extended warranty plus the one year of warranty it came with) and a $2800 tablet. If that tablet got stolen, I'd have to pay for it. I sure don't want that to happen...
Now we all know that we can't always rely on the locks to keep our computers safe (not that I have a lock, but they gave me a lock for the tablet, which looks like a piece of crap lock anyway... I'm better off hiding my laptop in my suitcase under my bed where no one can see it).
Now Katie and her room mate (she had a desktop computer) don't feel safe to sleep in their room tonight because their screen is all cut open...
It was just... such a shock. We had such a fun evening and then...
It sucks. It sucks big.
It sucks even more for Katie though...
Stolen Laptop...