Marching Band Organization

For my whole life I have always loved organization. Not just the big day-to-day routine aspects, but also the little things. I always organize M&Ms by their color before I eat them, I always separate my food into their own places on my plate, and I always try to do everything in a specific order every time.

However once I enrolled in high school something even greater than organization became part of me. I chose to join the marching band, there I learned that organization and efficiency can benefit each other. What allowed us to be as good as we were was not just hard work, but that we were efficient. Immediately, efficiency formed a perfect marriage with organization in my life. Furthermore, I met all of my closest friends during the countless hours we spent during practice. One whom was Patrick, who also loves organization as much as I do.

During March, the tubas are sent to an instrument repair shop to get fixed and are gone for around three weeks. Last year when the tubas came back someone did not put them in their right places so, of course, soon after school got out, Patrick and I organized them all into numerical order and neatly organized them across the wall. It’s just something we did because we liked doing it. About a week later, Patrick and I waited in one of the band director’s offices because we wanted to get a pass to come down later that day for student resource time, however, normally the director isn’t too cheerful about handing out passes. The director told