PASADENA, Calif.
Students at the California Institute of Technology campus were able to forget rocket science for a day and harvest olives instead.
Students and faculty put away their laptops Friday to climb 16-foot-high ladders, perch in cherry pickers and grab the black and green fruit that would otherwise stain the university's walkways.
Their goal is to make some 1,200 bottles of olive oil to raise money for scholarships, staff bonuses and student activities.
''It's not really just about the olives. It's about everyone working together,'' said freshman math major Tim Black of Wisconsin, who was one of more than 500 people picking olives.
It's Olive Picking Time at Caltech
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