No worries, one thing i would say is spash out on an apple mac and get playing around with Photoshop, Illustrater, Quark and InDesign.

If you are confident in the use of these then you will be in a good position when applying for work.

On the print side of thinhs, I can give you some tips on what is vital to know - pretty easy stuff, should you be asked in an interview. Many first jobs in design are laying up simple adverts etc, and as a firm gets confident with you they should push you onto larger projects.

So if you do get a MAC (99%of design studio's will ask for MAC over PC), create some designs, leaflets, posters, flyers, adverts etc, you can use sites like www.istock.com and use nice images to create spanking designs.

This will help you build up a portfolio to take to interviews, and aslo get your speed up on creating something from start to finish and also give you a good understanding of what does and doesn't work.

It can aslo help to show you have an understanding of how to take a brief for example:

Looking at who it is aimed at in terms of age/sex/race (target audience) and also taking into consideration things like poor eyesight if it is aimed at the elderly.

What the key message is

How the publicity will be used (no good having tiny text on a bus advert etc)

How easily the style created will run across different typres of media (Web, Leaflets, sides of taxi's etc)

If you set a range of projects for yourself and are able to explain reasons behind your design, again, it gives you the upper hand in interviews.

I am useless at web building, but again, if you can get to grips with that, then doors will open as your are then 2 in one and are more useable to an employer.

Good luck with it all.

Matt