<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](<a href=“Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Official Athletics Website”>Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Official Athletics Website) says
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>