Is knowing how to swim being a requirement for college a bizarre thing or not?

[archcommus]

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: archcommus
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life.

I think knowing how to swim is a good life skill to have whether a college requires it or not.

 

[yllus]

Is the college on an island? Haha, I kind of like that.

 

[loup garou]

This thread made me smile.

 

[Anubis]

not knowing how to swin is more ridiculous actually

 

[venk]

Originally posted by: archcommus
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life.

I like to eat my own head.

 

[biostud]

In some colleges you swim from class to class

 

[venk]

Originally posted by: biostud
In some colleges you swim from class to class

Did you go to college with Aquaman?

 

[blodhi74]

not for a navel collage

 

[BigB10293]

Georgia Tech used to have a drown proofing class. It made it clear that school was sink or swim.

 

[Squisher]

Most people at college are barely treading water.

 

[cjgallen]

Originally posted by: Anubis
not knowing how to swin is more ridiculous actually

It's pretty common. A few guys in Navy delayed entry with me don't know how to swim, they'll be learning at basic training

 

[markgm]

I know when my brother went to Grove City it was a requirement. He actually dreaded it I think... How high school of colleges to make it a requirement!

 

[oogabooga]

college still has a suprising amount of highschoolish stuff in it. Learning to swim? Shrugs : if you go to the school, you follow their rules.

 

[rh71]

they offer "beginners swimming" usually... and to get an A, it's just about attendance and participation.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Knowing how to swim is a requirement for swimming!

 

[theNEOone]

cornell makes you pass a swim test to graduate. i think it has something to do w/ some students having drowned in a nearby lake (cayuga) decades ago. :shrug: anyway, didn't bother me one bit. besides, you get to scope out all the freshman hotties for hookup potential


=|

 

[Biggerhammer]

Originally posted by: archcommus
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life.

Read P&N and see what kind of things people think. Swimming requirements will look pretty mundane.

My HS required you to be able to swim before you could graduate.

 

[Kipper]

The question you should be asking is: why DON'T I know how to swim so this requirement would be a joke?

If you can't swim after college, odds are you will never learn. Doesn't seem like an unreasonable requirement to me, especially because it is very useful.

 

[brigden]

Not knowing how to swim strikes me as nearly impossible.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: biostud
In some colleges you swim from class to class

Fish swim in schools.

 

[JoeKing]

knowing how to swim isn't important, it's knowing how not to drown that get's you the womenz.

 

[agnitrate]

People who can't swim had better be missing either both arms or both legs. Any other reason to not knowing how is a waste of time.

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: biostud
In some colleges you swim from class to class

Fish swim in schools.

10/10

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: archcommus
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life.

Almost as ridiculous as not knowing how to swim.