Baker Spirit
Spirit, Events, and Trends
Stuff about that hard-to-define thing called “Baker Spirit”. Detailed info about significant events. Background info on interesting trends. Baker House is a community. 350-plus really smart teenagers, with basically no time and (almost) unlimited money. Plus a building and a room assignments policy that causes the whole dorm to shuffle every year. Which results in…
- Baker Reunions
- 60th_anniversary_reunion (2009)
- 70th_anniversary_reunion (2019)
- What happens when 350-plus MIT students live together? All the random things that made it a more than just a structure housing 350-plus MIT undergraduates, such as:
- Crowding, over-crowding
- How are the rooms/floors different?
- Parties - the largest social community at MIT
- Athletics - Everything from “A” league to “D” league
- Always being able to find someone else in the dorm taking the same class…
- Did You Know? (House Trivia)
- Traditions: From cool hacks to borderline hazing
- Phone pinning
- Penny-ing someone in their room
- Showering/Moating people, especially Freshman Shower Night (the night before the first 8.01 test)
- Water fights, surgical tubing, “mariahs”
- The 3-man lift
- Annual House awards
- One-time hacks/events like:
- 1955: May Day Riot
- 1957: Tuition Riot
- 1975: Twist of the Tool