interview preparation

To ensure my interview went smoothly, I prepared by finding an interviewee well in advance and coordinating a place and time to meet that didn’t interfere with either of our schedules. I choose my classmate Alex because I remembered her mentioning that she is a mass communications major as well, and I wanted to gain insight from someone on the same track who isn’t in my current class or the intro to mass communications course I took over the summer. This way, we’d have different experiences but be able to relate over the same general idea. It was difficult to overcome my initial anxiety about conducting an interview, as I’d never done one before, and worried that I was either not behaving professionally enough or came across as too formal. However, as we fell into the rhythm of talking, I relaxed and became more comfortable and let the conversation expand beyond the questions I’d specifically written.