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Kelsey Iffert

Bio: Kelsey is a recent graduate from FullSail University with a bachelor's degree in creative writing Her expertise is in Canva, Final Draft, Word, and Excel. She is a published writer of the story “Ghostly Tales and Other Short Stories” with Draft2Digital in May 2023. Kelsey is passionate about telling stories and is always eager to collaborate and connect on exciting writing and editing projects. Her hobbies including reading, video games, and writing. She is excited to learn more with this internship.
Fashion

Trans Shoppers Deserve Useful Fit Information

When you go to any store that has clothes you want to see your options. You want to make sure it fits if you are tall or short or fits your body type such as fit, skinny, or chubby. But when you are trans it’s a bit different especially if ...

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Sports

Community Sports Need a Sliding-Scale Entry Fee

When you are a low income family and your child wants to play a sport you want to let them do that but sometimes those community sports cost a lot of money. Now I understand that a small fee is needed to supply uniforms, and other equipment but I don’t ...

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Music

Video-Game Music Deserves to Be Treated Like “Real” Music

When people hear the soundtracks of video games who are not gamers they don’t consider it music, mostly because it has no lyrics. But when it comes to music in a video game it really sets the mood for the game and sound design can make all the difference in ...

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Politics

The People Writing America’s AI Rules Need to Listen to the People Actually Using AI

As a creative person who works in the field of writing, whether it be games, articles, or even music videos I know that it is a hard market to compete against AI. That being said, I do use it to help me get out of writer’s block as a push ...

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Sports

What a Non-Fan Knows About Sports

I never understood the hype of sports. People having huge parties for the Superbowl, World Series, or NBA Finals just to be yelling at the screen. Or maybe it’s not sitting in the comfort of your own home, maybe you are in the heat watching the games, among millions of ...

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Politics

Why Public Transportation Shouldn’t Be Treated as a Big-City-Only Issue

I’ve mostly lived in places where there was public transportation that got you to where you needed to go. Most of those places were university cities and decently bigger than where I live now. The issues that I had to deal with were buses being late, not having bus fare ...

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Latest News

Newark Liberty International Airport Flights Impacted by FAA Equipment Outage

On Monday morning, the FFA issued a ground stop for New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport due to an equipment outage. The order means that all flights arriving to and departing from Newark are currently delayed. The current restriction is scheduled to remain in effect until 1:45 p.m. It was ...

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Books

The Books That Made ’90s Kids Want to Read

Since I learned how to read at probably around the age 4 or 5, I always loved reading. There were some books that helped that love for reading to reach adulthood. At age 5 I always loved authors like Eric Carle who wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar, or Chika Chika ...

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Food

Forget Souvenirs—I Want to Bring Home Snacks

I go on vacations in the summer with my mom and grandma, and in the past when heading to Branson MO, we stopped at a place called the world’s biggest candy store. Now this store had everything candywise and candy that you can’t find anywhere else such as sugar daddies ...

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Movies

Why Horror Is Scarier When We Don’t See the Monster

We all know movies where we know who the “monster” is, like in Friday the 13th, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, or A Nightmare on Elm Street, but then there are movies that never show the monster or don’t show it until the end. Those make it scarier, the psychological ...

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Sports

When Does Being a Passionate Sports Fan Become Toxic?

You are at a baseball game with your son. You see a fly ball and tell him to catch it. He catches it, but soon someone behind you snatches it out of his glove. As you turn around, you see an angry man telling you that it was his. This ...

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Sports

Should an Athlete’s Private Life be Completely Separate From Their Career?

Everyone who loves sports likes to get into the lives of their favorite athletes. But when is it too much and borderline stalkerish? I mean, if an athlete posts on social media about something like a marriage, engagement, or even the arrival of a baby, they have the right to, ...

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