<p>do you need to do the whole test with front crawl? does anyone know the approximate size of a usual high school pool? and can we take the swim test during orientation?</p>
<p>The PE</a> requirement website says
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Freshman Swim Test: September 5, 2006.</p>
<p>The swim test requires that you swim 100 yards on your front. The Boat test also requires that you tread water for 10 minutes. <note from="" mollie:="" boat="" test="optional"></note></p>
<p>Students may fulfill the swim requirement by taking Beginning Swim class. The swim test should be taken by all freshmen and transfer students who can swim.</p>
<p>Come to the Zesiger Sports Center Pool (Building W35) anytime during assigned hours by last name.</p>
<p>Duration: 30 minutes</p>
<p>(In case of a schedule conflict, you can be accepted at either one of the sessions)</p>
<p>Swim Test Schedule</p>
<pre><code>* 9a - 11:45a Last Names A - L
* 1p - 3:45p Last Names M - Z
* Non-Swimmers come at assigned time to sign up for Beginning Swim class.
</code></pre>
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You don't have to take the test during Orientation (I didn't take mine until IAP of my senior year), but it's good to get it out of the way.</p>
<p>[pssst, mollie,..tell them how easy it is to learn to swim]</p>
<p>OK, everybody into the water,..</p>
<p>Haha, I knew how to swim already -- nothing else to do in Ohio in the summer. But my last name is A-L, and 9 AM is earrrrrly during Orientation. :) So I took it senior year!</p>
<p>Duration: 30 minutes</p>
<p>does that mean we only get 30 minutes to swim 100 yards?!
(I actually have no idea what 100 yards look like. But I am a quickly-exhausted swimmer.)</p>
<p>Even though I probably can't swim 100 yards, I know that 30 minutes is a LONG time. If you can stay in the pool and tread/swim for that long, you'll have no problem doing the 100 yards.</p>
<p>100 yards is a football field. :)</p>
<p>I'm not a fast swimmer, and the day I took the test, I had taken a step PE class and cheered at a basketball game, but I know I finished in under 10 minutes.</p>
<p>That sounds insanely big (dude, I'm from New York City. I don't think I've ever seen a football field........).</p>
<p>Oh well as long as no one stands nearby holding a stopwatch I think I'll be good :D</p>
<p>The pool is 25 yards, so you swim over and back twice. In 30 minutes. You can probably do that without a big problem if you can swim at all: take your time and just go nice and easy.</p>
<p>eat lots of styrofoam the day before the test,..</p>
<p>Don't swim too fast when you do this, go at a nice slow pace. I tried to swim it fast when I was in pretty good cardio shape and that didn't work out well.</p>
<p>well don't swim teams usually require u to swim 50 yards under 40-45 seconds..? so 30 minutes doesn't sound... too bad? =P</p>
<p>Yesterday I decided to practice for this in a 25 yd (or was it meter?) pool - somehow I convinced myself that I would need to do 4 laps (over and back) instead of just 2 to get to 100 meters, so I actually ended up swimming a 200. And then I did this all again, just because I had nothing better to do.</p>
<p>Remember, just because somebody gets into MIT doesn't mean they know how to count. ^_^</p>
<p>heh, I swim competitively and I lose count <em>all the time</em>. Much to the entertainment of my swim team.</p>
<p>hehe well swim teams you usually swim the 50 yards in about 20-25 sec, and 100 yards in a minute or under (race times)
... 100 yards in 30 min is very easy for me as a competitive swimmer. he some people i know could swim two miles (3200 yards) in that time !!!! but yeah just practice it should be pretty easy if you know how to swim</p>
<p>Anyone up for 100 fly? =P</p>
<p>we should definitely have a race for all non-competition swimmers and have top prize be a TI-89 titanium or something.</p>
<p>100 fly? how 'bout 100 doggie paddle?</p>
<p>Or maybe a swimsuit contest? ;)</p>
<p>Hella yes...</p>