Connor Smith

As a senior who moved here in eighth grade, I don’t have the same feelings as someone who spent their whole life in the North Allegheny School District. Yet these four years have been some of the most special years of my life. Moving across the country made life extra scary: how was I going to make friends, was I goin to fit in, what’s going to happen to my old friends? But from the day I arrived at the north entrance of Ingomar Middle, I have been welcomed with open arms and accepted by everyone I’ve ever talked to. I quickly realized that North Allegheny is the best thing that ever happened to me. I thought I’d miss California every day I was here, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Thanks, North Allegheny, for a special four-and-a-half years that will influence my life forever.