The baseball team was 1-26 and 0-12 in conference play.

You guys really are geeks.

They can't be that bad. Haven't you guys seen Lambda Lambda Lambda in action in "Nerds"?

booooooo, leave MIT to the nerds.

/wishes he could go to MIT :(

I was trying to remain open to the possibility that MIT truly has some good sports teams that are just overlooked, until I read this:

School officials plan to roam far and wide in hopes of attracting good oarswomen to the school, an effort they say will also help spread word of their newfound commitment to sports.

BWAAAAA HAAAAAHAAAAA HAAAAAAAA!

Fear the Engineer!

They play sports? I thought MIT was just a bunch of brainiacs. I need more coffee if I am gonna have to deal with brainy athletes now.

Per the article. Candace Royer is "pumping up" the "beaver" mascot. Sounds nasty. I bet I'd hit her AND the geek beaver-

(Sad lonely pathetic loser)

I need more coffee if I am gonna have to deal with brainy athletes now.

Not really, just brainiacs that think they are athletes. Just like all those exHigh School athletes that never miss a pro game and wont give up their "glory" days.

You'd think that nerds would be good at sports with their ability to calculate things like weight, distance, speed and impact.. things like this. Maybe they are all get scared stiff when they get on the field or court.

Brainy Atheletes: I suppose military intelligence and smart blondes exist too in some wacky alternate universe! Sheesh-

I will say, the new fitness center is farking sweet... it's gorgeous, especially the workout rooms

Having said that, I think we're division 1 in like one sport (and it's a "sport", it's like ballroom dancing or something like that), division 2 in like one other... so I don't see this happening anytime soon

Plus, I dunno who the hell they think can take 4 classes at mit while doing a varsity sport, but it's not going to be a huge group of people.

They need to do what Duke does. Have tight admission standards for anyone who can't throw an orange ball through a hoop, and much lower standards for everyone else. Bonus if it means they can circumvent the NAACP by being able to claim a much higher percentage of minority enrollment since many major-college athletes are African-American.

Duke sucks.

I hear their sabermetrics team is pretty good.

Sabermetrics being the study of baseball statistics, by the way, not the practice of measuring your 'saber'.

To compare a sabermetrician to a baseball player is to compare Bill James to Nomar Garciaparra.

You don't field a team of James-Gammons-Campbell-Stark and expect it to be competitive, even after you compensate for age and throw in park effects just to be a geek.

/stick to what you know, MIT

I can see it now. "The umpire observed the pitch and changed the outcome!"

SimuLord, nice profile.

My cousin is a double varsity student at MIT. Not only is he the captain of their chess team, but he was also a member of the state finalist curling team. That and he's a Metaphysics-Bio-IT-Chemimal-Coldfusiontheory-Engineering quadruple major. The chicks won't leave this guy alone! Lars, we are so proud of you.

Maybe they are trying to downgrade from ubergeeks to just geeks. "Throw the ball! Throw it. Okay, roll it if you have to."

They outlawed more than 2 simultaneous bachelor degrees a couple years ago... the last triple major was on my dorm floor, he was rediculous, took like 6 classes a term... hehe

Most of MIT's teams will remain in Division III, the NCAA's least competitive classification ...

Translation: Most of MIT's teams will remain in Division III, the division we as journalists know nothing about and don't respect because it consists of athletes who are actual students rather than hired guns whose names make the sports pages.

adenine, it's generated a lot of email, and had other spiffy side effects as well. Apparently my verbose rambling appeals to some people.

Is counter strike an olympic event now???

MorningBreath

My comment stands as posted. To say that Duke's standards for its (predominately black) football and basketball (i.e. revenue-generating) programs and its non-revenue-athlete students are in any way comparable is an exercise in self-delusion.

Is there a link somewhere to the SAT scores of the typical Duke undergrad vs. the Duke football and hoop program? If you can show me that they are even within 100 points of each other, I'll shut up about using sports as a way to mask institutional racism.

Beaver - nature's engineer, and probably nature's geek.

Ty calls him "Bucky", I call him "Chainsaw", my mascot:



in case image doesn't load: http://www.ty.com/images/products/180_lg.gif

/MIT's mascot is beefed up, but mine's cuter

I went to a school of 1100 students, and I've seen us on the college ticker many more times than MIT. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing an MIT score in my life.

Hehe Bubba and I think some input from unchellmatt ;)

This pisses me off.
MIT is a nerd school.
It's what we are good at, why people come here, and why we have been so successful.

Slowly but surely, the administrators want to turn us into Harvard.

Blargh!!!!!!!
Harvard Sucks.

Women's fencing took first-place overall at the New England Championships for the sixth consecutive year. The foil unit was first in its division, while the sabre and epee squads garnered runner-up finishes.
The women's team enjoyed one of the most successful campaigns at the Institute in 2002- 03, closing the season with an 18-3 ledger after taking victories against North Carolina, Duke, Boston College, Brown and Cornell

From their website.

I can tell you that Duke and Carolina, Boston College and Cornell are strong fencing schools. Brown is simply ok.

I only found 37 of the claimed 42 sports on their site, which, by the way, is located at:



http://web.mit.edu/athletics/www/



Baseball

M Basketball

W Basketball

M Crew-HWT

M Crew-LWT

W Crew - LWT

W Crew - OWT

M Cross Country

W Cross Country

Fencing

Field Hockey

Football

Golf

M Gymnastics

W Gymnastics

M Ice Hockey

W Ice Hockey

M Lacrosse

W Lacrosse

Pistol

Rifle

Sailing

Skiing

M Soccer

W Soccer

Softball

Squash

M Swimming

W Swimming

M Tennis

W Tennis

M Track & Field

W Track & Field

M Volleyball

W Volleyball

M Water Polo

Wrestling

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lmao...

"I didn't even know MIT had sports," they would say.
/Hi my name is They...

Surprisingly, MIT's athletics program is way better than my college.

I went to art school. No sport teams, activites, ever. But, we threw the best parties, that alot of the jocks from the local Universities would crash.

I know the #1 runner for the MIT Mens cross coutnry team. Known him since kindergarden. And believe me he may be smart, but not the brightest. He licked a frozen flagpole in 7th grade, and yup, you guessed it.

But he will become president, so I will be shot for saying this someday.

Penchant for brainiacs with sinew. Love 'em. Can't abide dumb jocks, so whee!

Tidbit: Dolph Lundgren was studying Biochem at MIT on a Fullbright scholarship when he decided to move into "acting".

/a little too beefy for me but blows the steretype out of the water, nuh?

Their water polo team sucks.

Mit? Ohne.

Bung_Howdy
Brainy Atheletes: I suppose military intelligence and smart blondes exist too in some wacky alternate universe! Sheesh-

Heh, yeah, we've got brainy athletes (I'm in the aero/astro department and in IM football; gonna learn hockey in winter). We've also got smart blondes and ROTC members; some are my classmates. Hell, we've got students of just about any nationality, ethnicity, body type, sexuality, music preference, athletic ability, etc. that you can possibly name.

We just have more pencil-necks than bodybuilders, that's all.

/new MIT grad student and proud

VideoVader signs off "new MIT grad student and proud."

You oughtta be. Let me be the first to say kudos.

Their taekwondo team is very good.

Hey, thanks Ranylt. Much appreciated.



Have a trophy.

I_touched_a_llama

I amuse you? I make you laugh?