Hello you! I'm new.

If I start at the beginning… I joined the Sussex Internship program a few months ago having left uni last year with a degree in communication and media studies. I thought by joining their list of hundreds of hopeful interns it would allow me a potential foot in the door of a company in the media industry. After leaving a management job in retail, I applied for a project management internship at Message. What attracted me to Message was the description of their company being within the digital media industry, friendly and local.

I have always been interested in digital media and thoroughly enjoyed creating websites on Dreamweaver, along with using programs such as Adobe Premier Pro to edit videos etc. I really want to create and work within the media industry as I believe it to be fascinating and highly underestimated as one of the most powerful industries in the world. I like the idea of project management as I am always the first to put my hand up for organising a good party and consider myself an approachable and friendly person.

It was a daunting thought to be starting an internship at a company who had a small team so advanced in technical ability: I was worried I wouldn't be able to keep up. But what they lack in numbers they make up for in personality, and everyone at Message has made me feel very welcome and slowly introduced me to various clients, websites and general routines so I have not once felt like I was given an unmanageable amount of work to do.

My first day consisted of meeting Jamie, Joe, Melita and Danny who were all very welcoming. We went straight into a meeting where the to do list for the week was discussed. This was a great opportunity for me to get to know what Message is all about, it's clients and who did what. Jamie, the director of Message, is really friendly and has a great sense of humour. Melita, project manager, is lovely and always smiling. Lead developer Joe, has an impressive amount of knowledge under his belt on anything web or design orientated. Danny, a web developer, also lovely, kindly talked me through the coffee making routine along with who has what including Joe, who has his own mighty Boosh mug for when it's tea time, otherwise coffee cups and saucers is how we drink our coffee here! :)

My first mission was to edit Katie Price's new website, it was great to get stuck in straight away and it was a perfect way to get to know how the system at Message works. Since then I have had my fingers in many pots working on tasks for various clients and learning new things along the way. So far so good!