Hundreds of students arrived on campus in the early hours to camp out for Running of the Bulls.
It was four in the morning on a Tuesday during summer break — there were approximately 101 high school students on the MVHS campus. Hundreds of students subsequently trickled onto campus to camp out in line for Running of the Bulls – and more specifically, the tentative schedule changes that would accompany it.
"We just assume it is [best to come early] because you’re first in line, so you get first priority," sophomores Tiffany Wu and Elise Chen said.
"Honestly, I feel like it’s a whole 2011 bonding thing… like a camping trip, but at school," junior Brian Thai said. "Some people are here just to have fun."
"I think that students believe [ROTB] is more like a shopping list — shopping for an item where if you’re trying to buy a very popular video game system or something like that, it’s first come first served… In reality, you need students to move around to be able to drop classes, to be able to get into all those classes," administrator Calvin Wong said.
"Some of the classes are a little bit over capacity because we know that kids will drop and things will move, so the classes should balance," Gross said. "We’ve already built in that factor."
"We’re not going to say no for the sake of saying no," Assistant Principal Michael Hicks said. "We want to keep the students happy."