Baker House, an MIT dormitory, is famous because it is the only complete building that the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed in the United States. It would not be uncommon for me to wake up on a weekend morning and find an architecture student sketching away in the stairwell. ArchDaily provides a wonderful history: <a href="https://www.archdaily.com/61752/ad-classics-mit-baker-house-dormitory-alvar-aalto" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">archdaily.com/61752/ad-classics-mit-baker-house-dormitory-alvar-aalto</a> For me, Ronald Koo, Baker House was my home from 1985 to 1989. I even lived there during the summers because my summer jobs were in the Boston area. Baker House held about 360 undergraduate students, and we were essentially packed in like sardines. Just as chemical reactions speed up under great pressure and stress, so too did our lives in Baker House. So many things happened in those four short years. Those of us who lived there will never forget. We students studied, played, and partied together. Baker House was our support group. Many became lifelong friends and still see each other decades after we graduated from MIT. Baker House has its own reunions. On my increasingly rare visits to Baker House, I see the ghosts of the younger versions of myself and my schoolmates when I walk the quiet hallways and rooms. Perhaps as an undergraduate I was impatient to graduate and engage with the world; now I wish I could go back for a day and relive my youth. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, according to Marvin Liao.