<p>Every school my son and my daughter looked into said the same thing, “don’t bring a good bike to school as it will get stolen”. It was the same way many years ago in my day. Couple of my fraternity brothers invented a bicycle lock made from some kind of super case hardened steel. Hacksaw blades would just polish it. Thieves got so pieved at it that they would put some kind of acid into the lock mechanism (which was made of the same stuff) and you’d be stuck. Only way to get it off at that point was to get some liquid nitrogen and then shatter the thing. Son went to school in CA with a nice, but not great, bike and used that lock. Problem was that it weighed a ton and its a pain to carry. However, he never got his bike stolen. Lock never went into full production. Anyways, the bike issue seems to be universal on all college campuses. </p>
<p>MIT seems to me to be relatively safe. You do need to keep your wits about you and be “street smart” on any college campus. Theives know that any college campus is going to have students with a lot of expensive and easy to fence “toys” around.</p>