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Week Ten winners

April 11, 2008

Week Ten results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

Changing Our Ways Serenely have won our Week Ten team prize, chosen at random from the 118 teams whose average exercise minutes met or exceeded the Week Ten goal of 280 minutes. (more…)

Week Nine winners

April 4, 2008

Week Nine results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

The Muckley Seven have won our Week Nine team prize, chosen at random from the 150 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

Your Red Sox superstition can win you a prize!

April 1, 2008
Feeling superstitious? Of course you are! Opening day at Fenway is coming up in just one week, and all of us who follow the team’s fortunes know that the team won’t win unless we: a) wear our lucky underwear, b) make the cat wear a tiny (more…)

Time to be creative!

March 31, 2008

The Week Ten getfit@mit “Creative Exercise” team contest challenges you to look deep within yourselves and find some of that fabled MIT ingenuity. (more…)

Week Eight winners

March 28, 2008

Week Eight results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

The Peachy Penguins have won our Week Eight team prize, chosen at random from the 146 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

Switching to Light is “on target!”

March 28, 2008

Through the first eight weeks of getfit@mit 2008, 98 teams have maintained an exercise-minute average that has met or exceeded each week’s goal. These teams were eligible for the Week Eight “Team on Target” special prize drawing. And the winner was Switching to Light! Each member of the winning team will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Asgard Irish Pub and Restaurant. Congratulations!

Want to do some real power biking?

March 25, 2008
As part of Energy Week, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering students have created a bicycle-powered laptop and are inviting getfit participants to earn some minutes while doing some carbon-free computing. The modified exercise bicycle has an adjustable laptop computer where the handles would be, making it easy to check your email, watch your favorite shows online, and read electronic documents while peddling.”Power bikers” can sign up to ride the bike, located in the Building 10 dome, any time during a 36-hour period, from 6 a.m. on Thursday, April 10, through 6 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008. (more…)

Week Seven winners

March 21, 2008

Week Seven results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

The Yellow Moons has won our Week Seven team prize, chosen at random from the 163 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

Another reason to keep exercising…

March 19, 2008
If your team is one of the 137 teams whose exercise-minute average has met or exceeded the weekly goal for Weeks One through Seven of the challenge, don’t slack off now! This week, we’ll be giving out an additional “Team on Target” prize to a team chosen at random from all teams whose average exercise minutes has met or exceeded every weekly goal through the end of Week Eight. The “Team on Target” winner will be announced with our other Week Eight team and individual winners on March 28.

How to eat more fruits and vegetables

March 19, 2008
Thanks to the collaborative efforts of Red Fire Farm and MIT employees, including several getfit@mit participants, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is coming to MIT this year for the first time. Community-supported agriculture is a partnership between a local farm and its shareholders. CSA members pay a fee for the entire season, and each week they receive a share of the yield of the farm in the form of fresh, seasonal produce. (more…)

Week Six winners

March 14, 2008

Week Six results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

Know Sweat! has won our Week Six team prize, chosen at random from the 177 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

CIS Globetrotters report for “spring training”

March 13, 2008

The special Week Six “Spring Training” challenge has ended, and we have a winner! It’s the CIS Globetrotters, chosen at random from the 52 teams whose members all reached or exceeded the Week Six exercise goal of 225 minutes. Each member of the CIS Globetrotters team has won a $10 gift certificate to Dick’s Sporting Goods. Congratulations!

Haiku contest winner

March 13, 2008

Congratulations to Cindy Woolley of team Flab-u-less!, winner of the first-ever getfit@mit haiku contest. Here is her winning entry:

My body immersed,
arms slicing through deep water.
Solitary joy.

Wooley, research coordinator for the Jonathan King Lab, has captained a getfit team from the King Lab every year since getfit’s inception in 2004. “I’ve found that it gets me off my butt more than anything, and gets me trying new types of exercise,” she says. (more…)

Haiku Contest Entries

March 13, 2008
We had a lot of great entries in the first-ever getfit@mit haiku contest. Three runners-up, Pam Parker, Anita Horn, and Rich Wenger, will each receive $10 gift certificates to Legal Seafoods. Here are their entries:

Pam Parker:
Lazy slothfulness
Team members frown frosty glares
Where are your minutes! (more…)

Week Five winners

March 7, 2008

Week Five results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

Will Sweat For Prizes has, in fact, sweat enough to win our Week Five team prize, chosen at random from the 205 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

Ice skating party on March 10th

March 7, 2008

A free ice skating party at Kendall Square Community Skating on Monday evening, March 10, could be a great chance to earn some exercise minutes. The party’s sponsors—MIT’s Graduate Student Council, International Scholars Office, Postdoctoral Scholars at MIT, and spouses@parnters@mit— are especially hoping that grad students, postdocs, and their families will attend this event. However, space permitting, others from the MIT community are also welcome. (more…)

“I Want to Look Good Naked” has team spirit!

March 6, 2008

Congratulations to I Want to Look Good Naked, winner of the Week Five “Team Spirit” competition. I Want to Look Good Naked topped 15 entrants in this special team challenge by exercising in groups of three to five team members on six occasions during Week Five. Their group activities included weightlifting and basketball. For their efforts, they’ve each won (more…)

Poetic justice?

March 3, 2008

Great honor awaits

The haiku contest winner.

Also a great prize.

You guessed it! It’s the first-ever getfit@mit haiku contest, and it’s happening this week! Can you express the essence of getfit, encourage other participants to keep exercising, and expound on the many rewards of fitness? Great! Now can you do it in 17 syllables? (more…)

Report for Spring Training!

February 29, 2008

It’s spring training time again, and we’re getting into the spirit with our own getfit@mit Week Six (March 3–9) “Spring Training” competition. A team will be eligible for a fabulous team prize if EVERY member of the team individually reaches the Week Six exercise goal of 225 minutes.

What are you waiting for? Batter up!

Week Four winners

February 29, 2008

Week Four results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

MSL Mayhem has won our Week Four team prize, chosen at random from the 228 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

Updates to “enter minutes” function allow users to start entering each week’s minutes on Monday

Since the “enter minutes” form for the previous week needs to remain open until the following each Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline for entering minutes, getfit participants have been unable to begin entering their minutes for the new week until Tuesday evening. A new software update solves this problem for people who like to enter their minutes as they earn them each day. (more…)

Week Three Winners

February 22, 2008

Week Three results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008.

The Creatine Phosphates have won our Week Three team prize, chosen at random from the 259 teams whose average exercise minutes (more…)

Week Three “Winter Games” medalists

February 21, 2008

Congratulations to our gold-medalists, Blatieshoe, who ice skated their way to the top of the Week Three “Winter Games” competition. The team, made up of current and alumni members of MIT Figure Skating Club, is participating in getfit for the second year and won the silver in last year’s getfit Winter Games competition. “Some of us competed recently at Boston University’s intercollegiate figure skating competition (read story),” says team captain Diana Cheng, “and we have (more…)

Week Five is “Team Spirit” week!

February 21, 2008

The second special team competition of this year’s getfit@mit challenge is set for Week Five (February 25–March 2) and will reward “team spirit.” To earn “team spirit” points, at least three team members must participate in an activity together. The more team members participating, the more points your team can earn. (more…)

Official tee-shirt design is chosen!

February 19, 2008
The votes are in, and participants in the 2008 getfit@mit challenge have chosen this year’s official tee-shirt design. For her efforts, freshman Melody Kuna, (more…)

Week Two Winners

February 15, 2008

Week Two results have been posted, and we have another set of winners for getfit@mit 2008. (more…)

Week One winners

February 8, 2008
Week One results have been posted, and we have our first set of winners for getfit@mit 2008. (more…)

Buns’n Burners wins Best Team Name

February 7, 2008
The voting has been completed, and the award for Best Team Name goes to Buns’n Burners. Each team member has won a pair of admission passes to AMC/Loews theaters, courtesy of the MIT Activities Committee (MITAC).

Some Buns’n Burners team members participated in getfit@mit last year as part of what team captain Jenny Lin describes as a “mixed-gender team.” This year, however, when interest exceeded available spots on the team, two teams were formed: Buns’n Burners for “the girls” (more…)

Go for the gold in the getfit@mit Winter Games!

February 6, 2008

Next week (Feb. 11–17) your team can earn gold, silver, or bronze medals (getfit organizers reserve the right to substitute other fabulous prizes for actual medals) in the 2008 getfit@mit Winter Games. (more…)

getfit 2008: Off to a strong start!

January 27, 2008
Registration for the 2008 getfit@mit challenge has ended with more than 2,100 individual participants on 310 teams. We’ll have more exact numbers, along with demographic information, once the dust settles and people activate their (more…)

Looking for running buddies?

January 26, 2008
MIT’s European club, one of the most active and diverse student activity clubs on campus, has invited getfit@mit participants to join any of their regularly scheduled four-mile recreational runs, (more…)

Weight Watchers at Work starts January 31

January 26, 2008
Getfit participants who are hoping to lose weight during the challenge may be interested to know that a new session of Weight Watchers at Work will begin on Thursday, January 31, from 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. at 500 Tech Square (NE47-187). (more…)

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