For my family, one of the best things about Christmas is cramming in one kitchen while scurrying to make my family's famous homemade ravioli. I often find myself, regularly, craving this ever so delicate...
December is a month full of holidays, where people spend time with loved ones and celebrate. It is also a time of spreading joy and gratefulness. So, in the spirit of the holiday season, I thought I would...
Mentally preparing myself, I clicked warily into the “Application Requirements” section of my Common Application. There, the application fee of each institution I was applying to was listed in a...
Quinn Volpe, Co-Editor-in-Chief
• December 15, 2021
Most of the programs that I have considered my top choices throughout the college application process have acceptance rates below 20%. The environment that surrounds me at North Allegheny, though this...
For many seniors, applying to college represents the culmination of four years of hard work in high school. The process can be one of the most arduous and stressful that students will have to go through,...
At 8:15 AM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, North Allegheny Senior High School sees a second wave of morning drop-offs. This time, the students who say goodbye to their parents and scamper into...
There is only one person you will spend your whole life with, one person you can’t break up with no matter how serious the fight. And in case you are not sure who I am referring to, take a quick peek...
You can’t have a top ten sports nicknames list without sparking some controversy. So let me set some guidelines on how I judged these nicknames and where they land.
First of all, the nicknames can’t...
Humans are put on this earth to do great things but then eventually pass away. In a way, we live to die. As blunt as it sounds, dying is simply a part of life. Without it, life is not complete. It is something...
On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 30, the Oakland County Police Department received more than one hundred 911 calls after a 15-year-old student opened fire at Michigan’s Oxford High School, leaving...
Anna Parsons, Senior Staff Writer
• December 3, 2021
Perfect. Even the word itself is perfect with an evenly distributed number of tall and short letters that are very pleasing to the eye.
But apart from the symmetry comes a mental distortion of what...
The words “psychopath” and “sociopath” are strewn throughout the media, from factual accounts of serial killers to the fictional world of crime shows. Recall Silence of the Lambs, No Country for...