safety at RPI

whydoicare
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:55:28 +0000

The main point is that your son/daughter would have to learn and apply common sense, no matter where they attend school. I lived off campus in Troy for 4 years, and in housing of rather low physical quality for 2 of those years. Never had a problem. At the time, most students were not lucrative targets for crime, but on the other hand, many displayed condescending attitudes towards the local residents, and that led to resentments. This is part of developing common sense, and of learning to interact with different people.

Later I obtained a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. You would think that Blacksburg is the perfect college town, and in truth it probably is. But look what happened there.