I'm lucky I got it, to be honest - I had to work a lot harder to persuade them to take me on than anyone else on the course. Plus I wasn't feeling 100% during the interview.

In retrospect, though, I'm glad I went for it. Opting for a placement in journalism/publishing was a totally last-minute decision, one which I almost didn't make because I see journalism as a fortress that's almost impenetrable to a completely inexperienced eighteen-year-old.

Mind you, if that school of thought were true, there'd be no such thing as a journalist. Hmm. I suppose you just need to attack it from the right angle :)

(No 45° angles allowed, sorry for the inconvenience)