With the packed schedule drawing to a close and finals ominously looming closer, the campus has an atomosphere of rushed panic. Students and teachers are in the process of evaluating the school’s new calendar, which puts first-semester finals before winter break and also has imbalanced semesters.

In recent years, Monta Vista, Lynbrook, Terra Linda, Pioneer, Leland High and other nearby schools have all decided to end their first semester before winter break. Now after years of complaints from students and parents alike, it looks as if the idea has become more of a possibility here, though many hurdles remain before Saratoga and Los Gatos High Schools can make this switch.