• during concert season you wish you where out on the field. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you can be found before school, at lunch, and after school down in front of the band room with all the other band members. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you spend more time in the band room then at your own house. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you are way too protective of your cubby hole. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you role your feet marching everywhere. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you look forward to band camp every summer. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you relate with the band nerds is the movie American Pie. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• the only dresses you have are black and concert style. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• for guys, the only dress clothes you have are dress slacks and tuxedo shirts ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you go to parades that you are not in and make sure lines are straight, horn angles are parallel, and everyone is on step. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you listen to the classical station and can name off songs that you remember playing in band. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you take comfort in the sound a baton makes banging agaisnt a podium. ( Jennie *Goober* )
• you own your own E-flat clarinet. (Jamie)
• you visit your band director everyday at his house.
• …or you babysit his kids for him.
• you can play every cadence the drum corps plays despite the fact you play clarinet. (Colt_saa_45)
• From Miranda:
  • you always start off on the left foot.
  • you can’t walk and listen to music at the same time without marching to the beat.
  • your fondest memories of high school are from being in the band.
  • your best achievements have included becoming first chair and section leader of more than one section.
  • when you hear your favorite songs from band you can’t help but do the fingering for the notes with the song.
  • you don’t know the melody of a song because you only remember the part you played in band.
  • you can pick out all the different parts in any song.
  • …and name the instruments that play them.
• you still wear your band shirt, from your senior year–ten years ago. ( HeidiPR )
• you count down the days remaining until field band camp. ( matt )
• you have a favorite cadence. ( melvan )
• you walk in step with your friends in the hall, in the street, across campus… ( logan )
• …or scream “LEFT, LEFT” at people out of step with you.
• you conduct every time you hear a song play on the radio. ( seamz3 )
• you proudly show off your trumpet mute collection. ( Jenn )
• you’ve managed to build a beach-side hut using your old reeds. ( jessa )
• you constantly sing old band tunes three or four years after graduating.
• you go back to your old high school to help with summer band practices. ( star437 )
• you try to hurt the other band at a football game. ( star437 )

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