A magical guide to getting your life in order that you definitely need.

Many of us get lost in the post-holiday depression that ensues after the Christmas madness. It's hard not to feel like a deflated balloon after the holidays end. But for some, there are still things to look forward to after Christmas, like the Three Kings Tradition, which celebrates the last of the twelve days of Christmas.

Although by the time it’s Dec. 31 (at least according to the ancient Mayan calendar) we might all be tiny particles in space, let’s just say for this article’s sake that the Mayans were wrong and that Judgement Day is far, far away.

Sitting in front of a camera inside a studio in the valley, Samo senior Kostas Garcia shares his opinions – both humorous and serious – on a variety of current videos on YouTube.

Whether it’s from grandma’s midnight poker sessions, or the brainy kids in science class, we’ve all heard of poker and chess.

The Samohi takes a look at a week in the life of Adriana Sanchez, a Samo senior and mother of an 18 month old boy and the role that Samo's daycare program has played in her life.

As Valentine’s Day approaches, students will not be the only ones exchanging heart shaped boxes of chocolates and bouquets of flowers.

Senior Johanna Turner stays positivite while struggling against a potentially fatal peanut allergy.

As many seniors are in the midst of their application process, prospective college students rarely consider an alternative — taking a gap year.

Read about junior Logan Henderson's amazing feats in Sacramento this past summer, passing laws to make California schools more LGBTQ-friendly.

"The Samohi sits down with AP Psych teacher Charles Thun to discuss the who, what, why and how of AP Psychology.

"The Samohi" explores the lives of international students on campus.

Samo's own unicyclist, Maxwell Devita is one wheel ahead of the curve.

Warren Orloff is certainly not your typical Samo teacher, nor is he technically employed at Samo. You may find him in an Algebra II classroom, helping students with their logarithms, or maybe after school tutoring a struggling math student, all pro bono. But now, he is focusing on learning math rather than teaching it, pulling out his calculator and notebook to study the concepts of the new Calculus D/E course.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Gigi! Samo junior Gissel Hernandez’s secret identity requires the strength of Superman, the agility of Spiderman and the intricate weaponry skills of Batman.

The Samohi explores the top 5 Los Angeles Hot Spots that make for a sensational summer on the best coast.

“The goal of this blog is not to show us devouring huge amounts of bacon ... anyone can do that. Our goals are to ... hopefully encourage people to join our grubbing tough lifestyle and to spread the word about as many local grubberies that we deem tough,” Nathanson posted on the GTWL blog.

Who flipped the backpack? Was it the quiet overachieving “Professor Plum” with the Jansport in the English Building? Or maybe it was the flirtatious “Miss Scarlet” with the North Face in the Spanish classroom? Whomever it was, backpack flipping lends itself to the ongoing game of “CLUE” to identify the backpack flipper. There’s the usual flipping routine, the sneaking up behind the victim, the suppressed giggles and the waiting to see how long it takes “the flipee” to notice. The teacher sits motionless at the side of the classroom, fully aware — sometimes disappointed, other times completely amused.

Many seniors pass through the offices of Gatell and the other college counselors with well-defined dreams of studying biomedical engineering or attending a music conservatory; others enter clueless. These students may be at a loss as to where their futures are headed, but they will still turn their noses at one suggestion: community college.

According to Edison’s website, the school immerses students in Spanish starting in kindergarten, and the curriculum gradually evolves to include half instruction in English and half in Spanish.“We walked into kindergarten on the first day of school and they completely spoke to us in Spanish,” Keller said. “I wasn’t afraid because I knew Spanish, but I remember my friend Dalia was. I had to help her out and tell her what the teacher was saying.”

Cody Williams returns to the football field to cheer on his teammates after a long season without him. This year he will star in a documentary highlighting football players who have suffered similar injuries.

Though it’s not celebrated every week, Harry Potter related events are welcomed by hoards of parties, thrown by people who have convinced themselves that their owl just got lost and any day now their acceptance letter to Hogwarts will be arriving, possibly bursting out through their chimney to defy the rule of their cruel, manipulating uncles with handlebar mustaches.

Daniel Katz was infatuated with aviation from an early age. He always looked forward to watching the planes take off from the observation deck at Santa Monica Airport and visiting the Museum of Flying with his parents. While these experiences planted the seed in his mind of becoming a pilot later in life, Katz’s love didn’t really reach the skies until the summer of 2006.

Jain said. “It is one of my favorite days of the week. I spend lunch singing with my friends and we do fun songs that you wouldn’t usually see in a classical choir.”

When a Samo student thinks of school spirit, they probably visualize a raucous group of juniors and seniors fervently screaming their graduation years until their lungs burst. Blue Crew aims to push that image aside, and take school spirit to an entirely new level.

To get away from city chaos, each month Irene Ramos heads home to Mount Pinos, her cabin and chickens — a welcomed respite.

Every word Tayllor Johnson utters is poetry. One of her passions, poetry enriches her life so that she speaks in verses, walks in dances. Her life is dictated by her passions to the point that being Tayllor Johnson is an art.

While Netflix offers convenience, Vidiots and Cinefile have begun offering more than just movies. In July, Vidiots began Vidiots Annex, which offers film study classes in everything from censorship in cinema to anime mythology to cult films as well as free screenings every Saturday night at 8. The movies they show on Saturdays are brilliantly selected, from Run Lola, Run to The Apartment. Their website includes ‘playlists’ of movies with common themes ( “Beyond Harry Potter” and “Manhattan Fabulous” to name a few).