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The start of a new semester can result in a lot of stress and busy minds that cause students to be forgetful at times.

For those who scramble to class and forget items behind, PCC offers Lost and Found services, located in B210.

According to Karen Baghdassarian, Lost and Found clerk, the past several months have seen a sudden increase in lost items.

There have been approximately 140 items turned in September alone.

“We used to only get a cardboard box of lost items, but since June we’ve been filling up shelves for each month, including August, which only has a few school days,” she said.

 “I am happy that we receive so many calls regarding found property as this shows that our students and staff are doing the right thing, which is reporting property to us that they find,” said Acting Director of Safety Services, Frank Scialdone through an email.

However, not all students know about the service. “I had no idea there was a Lost and Found office on campus” said radiology major, Alex Felix.

While freshman, Fernando Carrera, undeclared major, said “It’s nice of them to offer Lost and Found, I thought once something was lost it was gone forever.”

The contact information for the Lost and Found office is found on the PCC website as well as a description telling that all items are held for up to 90 days if they are not claimed or returned.

As Baghdassarian says, her favorite part is finding organizations to which to donate unclaimed items.

She has donated bicycles to the Boys and Girls Club, and bicycle parts to the Los Angeles Bike Coalition. Textbooks are donated to the school library, and calculators to the PCC Math department, while clothing goes to Vietnam Veterans of America.

 Baghdassarian makes a big effort to return identifiable items, like identification cards, or wallets. She offers a great tip to make life easier. “Attach a small USB with contact information to your car keys, so if they are lost all I’d do is pop in the USB, find them, and return it,” she said.

From sunglasses and textbooks to bicycles and clothing, a variety of items find their way to B210.

“I feel our students need to be more attentive to their surroundings, which includes their personal property,” said Scialdone.

Tracing back steps to remember where belongings might have been forgotten, or asking, “if I were a cell phone where would I be” might be good tactics, but if that doesn’t work chances are it’s already in the Lost and Found.

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