Hello Baker Class of 2029!!!

Welcome to Rice, but most importantly, HELLCOME TO BAKER! Baker will soon become your home away from home, and we are so excited to have you join our family. We are Shammas, Eman, and Tori (SET), and we are the Baker O-Week 2025 Coordinators! Since January, we’ve been carefully preparing and anxiously awaiting your arrival, and we can’t wait to finally meet you in person in August!

Every year, a new group of students, or tokens, joins the Baker monopoly board and experiences the thrills, challenges, and opportunities of life at Baker and Rice, and O-Week marks the start of that. O-Week will thoroughly prepare you for your years at Rice, which we hope will be some of the most inspiring, intellectually challenging, and socially formative years of your lives. With August 17th simply a dice roll away, we are honored to be the first (and certainly not the last) to welcome you to Baker!

No other college compares to us: we are the OLDEST, the CLASSIEST, the SNAZZIEST, and the BEST. Baker always comes FIRST (you’ll hear this a lot during O-Week), whether you’re going by founding order, alphabetical order, or magnitude of awesome-sauceness. As a result, we have the BEST culture on campus, one characterized by care and inclusivity. We’re constantly changing and creating new traditions at Baker, and you could be the reason for one of these big changes. You are truly the future of this college now.

Without the driven, smart, and innovative people who get involved in our college’s traditions, Baker and Rice would not be what they are today. In the year following your O-Week experience, you will find that Baker College plays an important role in your time at Rice, and will always be a home for you as you journey across the monopoly board of Rice.

Baker will be the GO-square of your life at Rice. It will be a place where you live, eat, sleep, and work. It will also inevitably become a home where you share, cry, love and grow. When you ask a Bakerite what makes Baker so unique, they will almost certainly respond with stories and tales about the people that make Baker what it is: their roommates, friends, and colleagues. Here, students are given the tools and freedom to make great things happen for our small but vibrant community. Whether it is helping plan Spirit Fridays, partaking in Baker Christmas family photos, or running the well-known Baker 13... there are many ways to delve into our college’s culture.

Baker, as well as the Rice community as a whole, is a safe space for all students, and we will not tolerate any form of discrimination. You can expect respect, support, and care from your fellow peers at your new home. We are here to help you through your transition to Rice. As Coordinators, we have been working tirelessly to provide you with a support network you can depend on to guide you through your first year at Rice and Baker, and even beyond. We hope that this book for Monopoly GO-Week will provide you with a strong introduction to Baker and give you a better understanding of what this monopoly board is all about.

Hell Yeah!

♥ Love, Shammas, Eman & Tori (SET)

With August 17th just around the corner, we wanted to be the very first to welcome you to our college, and now yours: Baker!

We are the oldest, classiest, and coolest college you will find at Rice.

As we always say, BAKER COMES FIRST, whether you’re considering college founding order, alphabetical order, or number of awesome students! At Baker, we love our traditions (which you’ll learn about soon!), but we also love creating new ones - that’s where you come in! Baker wouldn’t be the amazing place that it is without our motivated, smart, and diverse community, and we’re excited to see you become a part of it!