Move In Day Advice

Marian
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:26:23 +0000

There are a very few colleges – and my daughter will be attending one of them – that either require students to pass a swimming test or take a swimming course in order to graduate.

The college I’m talking about is Cornell. Columbia also has a swim requirement. Not sure what others.

Incidentally, until the mid1970s, male Cornell students took their swim test in the nude. I am not making this up. I was a student there at the time. Women were always allowed to wear bathing suits, and the men’s and women’s tests were held in separate facilities. (The women’s pool had a glassed-in observation deck, which is the presumed reason why women wore suits.)

Beil1958, your idea of exchanging cards seems to be based on the assumption that you will be present at the same time as the roommate’s parents. I wonder whether this is likely to happen. In my son’s three years of college, he has had a total of five roommates. I have met only one parent of a roommate, and it was on move-out day, not move-in day.