The placement director will ask students if they made any kind of money while doing an internship and no matter if they got a dollar tip for getting coffee, he will call that a placement. Then you are on your own! They hide all the old equipment you will be using off the tour section and put a few pieces of good equipment out for the public to see. The Grass Valley switcher he is sitting at was made in 1980, and everyone is ordered to not shut it off for fear of it not starting up again!