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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.
Politics

Schools Are Preparing Students for Jobs That Won’t Exist in 10 Years

In 10 years a lot of jobs that students are going to college and university for are going to be obsolete. It’s not that they won’t exist exactly, it’s more like the positions won’t be filled by humans and that’s the problem. The future is supposed to be bright and ...

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Latest News

City’s Smallest Pizzeria: Brad Alvelo Discusses Pizza Pod NYC

A New York City chef is turning heads after he turned his tiny two-seater Smart Car’s trunk into a curbside pizzeria, and serving customers on the go. CNN’s Jeremy Roth reported that Bradley Avelo makes pizzas in the trunk and uses portable generators for power, which draws attention to his ...

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TV

Friends Made Being an Adult Look More Fun Than It Actually Is 

So you are in you are a teenager and it’s the 90s and you are sitting on your couch watching Friends. You see all the crazy things they get into, and how they can just take off work to go to the beach, or London for a week and nobody ...

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Politics

Should Governments Do More to Support Neurodivergent Adults?

Governments do a lot to help pregnant women, poor families and even people who are too disabled to work be able to have the funds to survive. What they don’t do though, is enough for adults with autism, adhd or other neurodivergent conditions. Not only do we need doctors who ...

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Latest News

New Jersey Signs Act to Limit Social Media Addiction for Children

New Jersey is taking measures to protect children from online harm as the typical teen spends 35 hours a week on social media platforms, which is the equivalent of a full-time job. Gov Mikie Sherril signed the “New Jersey Kids Code Act,” which will force platforms to make children’s accounts ...

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Science and Technology

The Future Isn’t Dystopian or Utopian—It’s Just Uneven

Nowadays, when we think of the future, half of us think the world will break, and AI will take over, and half of us think that it’s going to be great, and we will live happily, everything will have a cure, and we will basically be immortal. To me, however, ...

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Sports

Should Every School Offer Adaptive Sports?

In school there is usually, in the United States at least, a football team, and a basketball team. And those teams, usually are played by people who can run, jump, throw, basically anything a player needs to be able to do. But what about the ones that were born different? ...

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Politics

Why Breaking News Has Become a Source of Anxiety

When you are watching the news, let’s say the weather, and all of a sudden you see a blue stripe of text go by and it says “Breaking News!” and it goes on about someone getting killed on a subway or a bus or something else that is really sad ...

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Fashion

The Real Fashion Icons of the 90s Weren’t Supermodels—They Were TV Characters

When I think of fashion, the first thing that comes to my mind is not supermodels. It’s characters from my favorite TV shows. When I think of hairstyles and what people wore in the 90s, my thought instantly goes to the shows F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Fresh Prince, That’s So Raven, and plenty ...

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Sports

The Generation Gap Between Esports and Traditional Sports

When you think of traditional sports, you think of young fans who were probably very influenced by older fans who are in their family or at least older people they happen to know. But when it comes to Esports, you don’t get many older fans. Mostly only young adults and ...

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Latest News

Playing with food: New Yorker Harley Langberg turns edible ingredients into portraits

For 12 years, Harley Langberg’s passion has been being in a kitchen. His day begins at 4 a.m., while his family is asleep and the sun has yet to rise is when Langberg says he works his best. He takes out some apples and nectarines, mashed potatoes are shaped into ...

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Music

The Best Memories of My Childhood Have a Soundtrack

I have fond memories as a child driving down a dirt road, heading to my grandpa’s for some holiday, and listening to music from the 90s with my mom, singing and laughing and just being a kid. My mother introduced a lot of different genres to me growing up, so ...

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