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Friday Jul 31, 2009

My time at TheSite

Jade has been our wonderful work experience intern for the past two weeks working on the editorial team. Here's all her gossip on what she's been up to:

Today is the last day of my two week placement as a student journalist on Thesite and I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone. It might be a cliché, and a terrible one at that, but time really does fly when you're having fun- I haven't even clock watched!

Unlike other placements where I've spent hours gazing at the computer screen with nothing to do, Thesite is busy, busy, busy and very hands on. I've had a number of responsibilities including press watch and the daily poll, covering topics from nudist beaches to fake tan to the law. I often found myself voting on my own polls (sad, I know).

I had a great day with Chris, the editorial assistant, filming for his video on how to make money. Although initially recruited as his extra I did get to try my hand at filming, thankfully I didn't drop the camera and it was great to see the final result-even if my nose did look HUGE in all the close up shots (thanks chris!)

I also had a go at writing a rant. Picking a subject was difficult, nothing really rattles my cage and I'm generally quite a happy person! I soon got into the swing of things moaning about my spongy housemates. It felt great getting it off my chest and onto paper, I just hope none of them read it or I'll be looking for a new house next year!

I've established a very close relationship with Muhammad, the systems administrator, over the fortnight I've managed to break, freeze and generally destroy most of the office computers. Me and technology have never been the best of friends and when I first used Polopoly (the websites management system)  it scared the life out of me.  I've just about got the hang of it and I think at last we are healing our differences but all the same I think Muhammad will be glad to see the back of me!

Sitting in on the editorial meeting was a great look at what goes on behind it all, I even brought some ideas to the table, you never know some of them might be up on website soon.

All in all it's been a fab two weeks here, not to mention an invaluable journalistic experience. Everyone has been so friendly, (despite my lack of making cups of tea) and has really helped me out. Hopefully I'll be back soon!

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