<p>What exactly does the swim test entail? Can we wear noseplugs?</p>
<p>I’m a camp counselor and I have all summer to “practice” therefore. </p>
<p>As much as I am excited about taking archery and “fun” PE, swimming (especially when it isn’t the summer) is NOT my thing and I would LOVE to get it over with in August after a summer of camp anyway.</p>
<p>If you know how to swim, you can pass the swim test. You just need to swim, I think, 2 or 4 lengths of the pool (I forget which). You can use any stroke at all, but you do have to keep moving. Lifeguards are everywhere in case you need them. Not sure about plugs of any sort; I’m assuming it’s fine.</p>
<p>Flexibility is sit-and-reach (those little contraptions you may have used in elementary school) and this weird thing involving lifting a bar back over your shoulders while lying on your stomach. Strength is a grip test, chest press I think (though they tend to really load that weight on higher than they should), and sit-ups or crunches to a certain rhythm (I forget which). Cardio is stepping up and down off the first step of the bleachers to a rhythm, and the score is determined by your heart rate at the end.</p>
<p>Corranged, I’m surprised you remember all of that. I had forgotten about the PE test in its entirety about twenty minutes after I took it, and I, the worst athlete in the world, passed out of two of three quarters.</p>
<p>PE classes are really fun. Take them even if you don’t have to. Along with IM sports, they’re a great way to relax, socialize, and exercise.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the responses, especially corranged :)</p>
<p>AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. It sounds like hell.</p>
<p>Sorry, but that’s how I see it. I’d still go through with it, of course. Heh.</p>
<p>The PE classes aren’t bad though if you pass out of the fitness requirement, but not the basic PE one. Social dance, archery…</p>
<p>Social dance? I thought U of C kids weren’t supposed to socialize!</p>
<p>/bad joke.</p>
<p>I took a PE class first quarter first year, and I still say hi to a lot of the people from that class that I see around campus.</p>
<p>The only hellish part of the PE test is if you end up taking it early in the morning. Mine was at 8:30 AM. The secret is that, usually, it doesn’t matter what time you show up for your PE or swim tests, as long as you take them sometime during the day you were assigned to. Just a hint.</p>
<p>Anyway, you take it with a bunch of other new students going through the same thing. I talked to a few pretty cool girls when I did it.</p>
<p>Swimming sounds good. </p>
<p>Flexibility sounds. . . erm . . . yeah I have no idea what half of the things you said are lol. </p>
<p>My gym class consists of about 15 minutes (usually “aerobic walking” around the block lol) of “gym” and them we buy candy from our teacher fo $1 and do homework. Good times lol.</p>
<h1>23 The graduate students are smarter. <g></g></h1>
<p>Wonder how the guys are at UC? Obviously they’re smart and witty, but how about looks? 
There has to be a reason 50% of alumni marry each other!</p>
<p>The guys here are like any random sample-- some are gorgeous, some are okay, some might be a little ick.</p>
<p>The girls, too, have that same variation-- there are a good number of totally gorgeous women-- but I think that because most chicks on campus don’t wear makeup or fancy clothing all that often, Chicago girls get called ugly.</p>
<p>Though I’m nearly positive the marriage rate isn’t that high, I think that a lot of people find their life partners here. I know a lot of current couples who met during O-Week, and I even have a friend whose parents met during Chicago’s O-Week.</p>
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OK. That’s a little weird. hahah</p>
<p>Mine met in statistics class. They point out the classroom whenever we walk by.</p>
<p>Awwww, true love must be in the air here.</p>