The Solution - Part II - A Change of Mindset...

When you move from college straight to AME school, you tend to carry habits along. Study habits, reporting time habits, sleeping and waking habits and so on. If you don’t shed these habits soon enough, they will get the better of you. Why? Quite simply because these habits just don’t fit-in with the world of aircraft maintenance. They are simply, UNACCEPTABLE.
You have to begin to understand that the methods you so successfully employed to get you through school and college, will actually work against you in AME school.

You have to learn to change, from the mindset of:
fixed study topics, to a mindset of applying knowledge between topics and even between subjects;
fixed type of solutions to fixed type of questions, to a mindset of screening all possibilities for a given problem;
fixed type of problems, to a mindset of a problem that changes every time you turn around to fetch a wrench;
fixed syllabus for every subject for every exam, to a mindset of …”syllabus? What’s that??”;
fixed study schedules and timeframes, to a mindset of catching a few words of exam preparation in between flights;
‘fixed’, to a mindset of ‘change’.

The only thing fixed, IS Change.
The transition is difficult, no doubt, even for 18year olds. But, some manage it, and it serves them well.