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.”