I've received an offer for a 6 month M&A internship where the best interns are hired full time. Having met the other candidates, my competition, I'm concerned that I might be out of my depth. A large majority of these guys studied finance at university/did a masters in finance and some have prior M&A internships.
Now I studied history at university so obviously my knowledge from school is nothing. That said, I've got fairly good accounting knowledge from my current job and have read Rosenbaum and Pearl valuation book and understand the concepts relatively well (accounting seems to be helpful for this). Despite this, I'm worried that these guys are going to be better than me because of their prior experience.
How difficult is the work at the early stages? There's no structured training programme and we're expected to hit the ground running and I don't want to be left behind. I'm planning to re-read Rosenbaum and Pearl and build a few more practice models to give myself a better understanding. What else should I be doing before I start to ensure I can compete?