So, we did it! Nine months of pain and suffering, tests and essays have ended. There will be no more breaking down in tears in the bathroom because your GPA took a hit, no more stressing about what your...

Before I begin, I would like to take a moment and thank procrastination and caffeine for getting me this far. There comes a point in everyone’s life when they have to accept some unpleasant truths....

Our teachers have been there through it all. And now at the end, the greatest influencers on our education have some last words of wisdom... "Pay attention to what's going on around you, and take responsibility...

Over the next few days, an epidemic is going to settle upon this school. Kids, stumbling from class to class will clutch Monsters and coffee as they break down in tears, wearing sweatshirts they haven’t...

One of the side effects of graduation creeping nearer is a constant mental flux between absolute joy and melancholic pain. They’re the "senioritis" symptoms no one told you about: a whiplash between...

For most high schoolers at NA, the thought of not going to college has probably never occurred. After all, college is designed to help you get a job, propel you into the future, and without a degree, earning...

Spring break. The classical movie trope about teenagers going wild, the last hurrah before the school year ends, and the “best” time to travel and visit colleges. Or, if you are a North Allegheny Student...

So we’ve done it…mostly. We’re in the home stretch, the last quarter of the year before returning to a life of summer sun, close friends, and, for some of us, packing for college. This should be...

DISCLAIMER:  The dateline of this article might have been a dead giveaway... but in case you were expecting an actual news article, you are hereby on notice that the following is an April Fools' prank. ...

How did you become a teacher at NASH? I was the director of the writing center at Bethel Park High School, and in 1996, I got a phone call from former NASH principal Larry Butterini. They were looking...

Like a swarm of locusts settling upon Egypt, a wave of illness has settled over NASH. Stuffy noses, coughs, vomiting, strep, high fever, the flu... Each one piles up to form one definition for the misery...

A few weeks ago, I caught what has become known as the "NASH Plague,” which left me with splitting headaches, dripping sinuses, and nausea so bad that the only cure was to curl up in a ball until I was...

On Thursday morning, NASH and NAI students shuffled off to their second period class as usual, but upon arriving to class, students watched a 90-minute live stream of the Safe2Say Something presentation,...

Valentine’s Day is a notorious day of love, of showing that special someone how much you care - or recognizing the fact that you are destined to die alone and unhappy. There are two extremes here, ladies:...

It’s a running joke in every high school drama. There is always a scene where the main characters get in a line, hold out their trays, and receive a slab of a gelatinous, grey substance cleverly called...

Now more than ever before, technology has become a daily part of student life. From online homework to tests to study materials, student life has become wrapped around the laptop, and NA is no exception....

Earlier this week, I received a letter from the administration reminding me, in hard black letters, that I had missed more than 18 days of school and, in the future, I will need a doctor’s excuse for...

Fake News Noun, /feɪk ˈnuːz/ Definition: False stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke. “There...

Classic Sugar Cookies  2 cups butter (softened) 1 1/2 cup sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (or to taste) 5 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoon cream of...

Christmas: the most wonderful time of the year. A time of giving and receiving, Santa Baby, because, on the first day of Christmas, all I want is you. Yet between all the decked halls and boughs of holly,...

Thanksgiving: a time for family, good food, and some of the most scorching arguments of the year shouted over mashed potatoes and gravy. Thanksgiving is wonderful, but it’s stressful, so we here at Protips...

We get it: sometimes life is rough and homework is impossible. Maybe you forgot, maybe you didn’t want to do it, or maybe the temptation of the next season of Grey’s Anatomy was just too good to pass...

Now that fall is here and the stress of Homecoming is gone, we have entered that awkward time of year known as “Pumpkin Spice Latte Season” - the period of horror between the beginning of October to...

Last Friday marked the return of former North Allegheny student, now well-known poet, Kelly Forsythe. Fresh off the release of her book Perennial in August, she took the time to return to her former school...

Welcome to Popcorn: your reliable source of information for everything awesome in pop culture. This was a busy week for the internet, folks, so strap yourself in and get ready to jump. Literally jump,...

Autumn brings a wave of leaves, pumpkin spice lattes–and debilitating expectations of seniors. This year, a projected 19.9 million high school seniors will apply to a college or university and, every...

They all remember. They will never forget. These are the stories of some of the NASH faculty on where they were that fateful day. “I remember looking at the TV and thinking, "What movie has a plane...

You heard every story from your siblings, your neighbors and/or your older friends. You went to the orientation and prepared yourself for the yellow brick walls, new teachers, and the labyrinth that is...