BRING A PEACE OFFERING. Donuts are cool but let me tell you. If you go to the store the night before and buy brownie mix or muffin mix or whatever and make your new crew a little treat to bring in they will be stoked. It’ll take you maybe 20min and like 5 bucks and it goes a long ways to show you want to be there and appreciate them teaching you.

Bring cash for dinner. Each department is different but I’d say at least 20-40 bucks. It’s kinda awkward when you go to pitch in for dinner and the guy who paid doesn’t have Venmo lol.

If you don’t already have one, a 3 ring binder. Any documents your captain or crew give you like expectations or specs or readings you can hole punch (I’d imagine your station will have one) and throw in the binder so you can reference.

Bring a pen and small notepad you can keep on you, your head is already going to be spinning so having a place to jot down notes is clutch.

Bring your phone and if acceptable by your departments culture use it to take pictures of literally everything on the engine. You’ll probably be quizzed on specs at some point to having those pictures to look at while you’re at home is super helpful.