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Student Internships | What I Did, Applying, General Tips

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I did a 3-month internship at a law firm this summer, and these are the most important things I gathered. I will list them down if you are planning on doing one or if you just want to know what it is like. Internship - The position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.  Internships are very important from a career point of view. It builds your CV, enhances your practical knowledge and shows your future employer that you have prior experience of working in a professional setting. It is important to know that not every internship will pay you, as Google said, sometimes without pay . The main purpose of doing internships is to gain experience, along with make connections. No matter what course you are doing, having connections with people working in the same professional field you're aiming to work in is extremely important. They can be a future option to contact if you...
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Top 7 Movies about Mental Illness | by Marissa Katrin Maldonado

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Image Licensed by Adobe Stock By Marissa Katrin Maldonado Hollywood has created many different movies depicting mental illness, to varying degrees of accurately representing the actual mental health disorder itself.  Some of its most popular movies feature a blend of a mentally ill character with horror, such as Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” adding terror to the mix.  Some movies, such as “Frances,” (1982) about the life of actress Frances Farmer whose alcoholism led to a mental breakdown, took us inside a psychiatric hospital where the viewer watched in horror as the character receive a lobotomy. The difficulty in portraying sensitive subject matter like mental illness is in avoiding caricature while still depicting the reality of mental health disorders and the treatment of them.  The temptation a scriptwriter and director might have is to go for the shock value or to exaggerate the reality of mental illness.  There is also the tendency to use m...
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Interview with Sebastien Skubala!

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Meet Sebastien Skubala! We've been planning this for quite a while and now, finally, I got this opportunity to do an exclusive interview with this 15-year-old singer-songwriter/actor from Australia. He's been performing since he was 9 in films which have later made their premiere at Cannes Film Festival! His latest song "Hide Yourself" has been released on various platforms {I'll link everything here in my blog!}  ________________________________________ Q1. You're constantly releasing songs and doing short films, how do you manage that along with the studies?  I’m very accustomed to juggling school with acting and singing because I’ve had to do it for so many years! I usually manage by completing as much work as I can in school hours and working hard in class. The work I don’t finish at school I do in the car on the way home. My time after school is then free for me to work on my creative stuff. I expect it’ll get a bit harder to do that when the workload in...
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Mappen | App Review

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What is Mappen? Mappen is a Social Networking app that helps in connecting you with your friends and family. It helps you to know who all you know are around you and can help you make plans with them. Though this is basically for teenagers, adults can use it, too. Just like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. you can use Mappen with the same amount of ease. Plus, it is so much FUN to use! How does Mappen make life better for teenagers? Mappen has a lot of features. Like, A LOT of features. Here are a few reasons why: 1. It gives you a notification if one of your friends is around you. Yes! You heard it right! If anyone you know is around, you will get a buzz on your phone and can instantly catch up with them and hangout! What can be better than having fun with friends!? 2. There is an option to " Update your Status " which will be available to your friends and it will be easier to make plans. You can add an emoji and people will instantly know when to text you. Like, wanna go...
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Sam's Theory | A Book Review.

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~~~~ Summary. Sam, a teenager who has experienced her parents' maltreatment her entire life, fears that her younger sister will experience the same fate. She and her companion Dodger come up with a plan to leave their group home and form a community that will aid other children just like them. Sam comes encounters a fantasy tree house inhabited by a mystery woman named Theory while traveling to meet Dodger at a remote lake. Sam learns the abilities she has been hiding inside that will aid in both her own healing and the healing of other abuse victims under Theory's compassionate yet effective guidance. Author Sarah Mendivel has created Sam's Theory, a motivational novel that is tragic, humorous, frightening, magical, devastating, and inspiring all at once. Although she includes some fantastical aspects in her book, she does not attempt to minimize or sugarcoat the reality of child abuse, which she depicts with an unflinching rawness. Because of this, readers who have e...
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Interview with Sarah Mendivel

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1. How did you get the idea of this book? I work a lot with kids and teens that are having a hard time with life experiences and the feelings that come with it. I used to work at a children's hospital in Chicago, IL where teenagers that were feeling depressed, anxious, or suicidal would come to get help. We would work together to learn about what made them sad, angry, and nervous, then team up to figure out what coping tools they could use to feel more successful in the world. This job was my most favorite job in the entire world because of how much I love teenagers and children. I happen to think you are all very special and it was important to me that you saw just how special you are, too. If you knew how important you were and saw yourself the way I do, you would do incredible things in this life. So, I wrote this book to try and help teens having a hard time to let them know that they can be okay. It's okay to feel lonely or stuck, but there are ways you can get out of thos...
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