Preparing For PE and Feeling Very Nervous

Starting out at a MM PE shop this summer and getting a little nervous I am not getting a good enough experience in my banking roll. At a BB coverage group and do a decent amount of M&A work but the models are all fairly high level and feel like I am not learning much on the rest of the workstreams (buyer logs, vdr, building out cims, pitch materials etc). Overall really just feeling like I am not learning a lot on the day to day and nervous I may be unprepared when I hit the desk in PE.

Any tips on what I can be doing to better prepare myself or are most people in a similar situation.

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