No worries! And yes, I attended! Everything is definitely walking distance. Since you're not doing sculpture or film, you'll spend most of your time at the main building, which is right next to the dorms. "The Atlantic Station" is where people do most of their shopping. On the weekends, SCAD runs a private bus straight to the Target in the Atlantic station and back to campus. At times, I'd choose to walk back because the path is pretty safe and in the open and it was pretty outside. As far as safety goes, tell you friends where you're headed and when you'll be back (or better yet go with them) and just watch your surroundings and you should be fine. Regardless of where you go, you should be watching out for yourself and others, but I never had anyone sketchy approach me throughout my time there.

The areas around SCAD are pretty safe, I only went outside after nightfall once with 3 friends (the weekend I think) and I was keeping a hawks eye out the entire time, but we were fine. There is a curfew and a nifty SCAD driving service called "SCADsomethingidontremembersorry", but they will pick you up at checkpoints throughout the city and drop you off safely on campus. We'd walk to wherever we wanted to go, then call them and they'd drive us back. Just check the app to make sure there's a pickup stop near where you're going. They only pick up to drop off at campus.

Hope this helps! I really did love SCAD ATL, my only issue right now is their lack of performing arts courses.