School went online this year, including MIT’s swimming test
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Jem Bartholomew
, The Wall Street Journal
The pandemic blocked real-life pool time for the school’s graduation requirement, so MIT created a conceptual class to take virtually
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology swim test—a 100-yard paddle required to graduate—hung over Megan Ochalek for four long years.
“I procrastinated taking it for seven semesters, despite many, many angry texts from my mom," said Ms. Ochalek, 22 years old, a mechanical engineering major.
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