What should I learn before joining a Direct Lending internship?

">I am joining a direct lending desk this summer at a bank and was wondering what I should learn before starting as there doesn't seem to be as much information on this as other finance roles.

">I have already learnt some financial modelling that's used in IB as I recruited for it but I was wondering if the modelling in DL is much different.

">Thanks a lot for any answers you can give

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