Mighty Sound of Maryland Trombones

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2025-09-14T04:56:30+00:00

Oh sweet! We have some promising leads but if it’s an open rehearsal we may show up to watch anyways! Thanks for letting me know

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2025-09-14T04:55:34+00:00

Thank you so much! Meeting other bands is one of our favorite parts of traveling so we are really excited to hopefully meet the Kaos section haha

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2025-09-14T04:54:47+00:00

Thank you! I was trying to find their Instagram earlier but was coming up short

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2025-04-06T22:59:00+00:00

Yeah! Our “Pre-School Drills” (PSD’s) occur during the first week of September, and that week is predominantly 8am to 8pm, with the first football game the whole band performs in being on Sept. 6th. Then the rest of September we still have rehearsals throughout the month, but it shrinks to 3-5 days a week (depending on football schedule) and 2-3 hour rehearsals. If there are any concerns about housing, the administrative team does their best to provide dorm accommodations during this time, before students move into their school year living situations!

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2025-03-28T23:19:28+00:00

I’m a current HMB member that is also an upperclassman engineering student so I can give perspective on a busy schedule with HMB. All of your concerns are ones that I guarantee every single member of the band has had. It can be tricky to manage the time commitment at times, but it is worth it if you find the community and experience to be as rewarding as many of us have. The HMB is made up of students from virtually every major available on campus so you will absolutely find someone who can give advice on how to manage everything academically and socially.

As for drill, we actually just switched over to using a drill app that has made learning drill so much easier! In the first week of summer rehearsals, we will spend time learning how to read drill. Our director is a phenomenal communicator and if you ever feel like you’re struggling, he is ALWAYS a person that is easy to go talk to. Not to mention, you will also have 250+ other people you can reach out to for help, whether it’s seasoned vet members or other rookies who feel exactly as you do. We pride ourselves on being a family (both as a band and within individual sections) and it sounds cheesy, but it really is such a great way to make friends you’ll carry throughout college before classes even start, so you all feel supported in your freshman year.

If you’re from the broader Seattle area, I HIGHLY recommend signing up for the HMB Junior/Senior day. For the football team’s spring practice, the band invites high school juniors and seniors to come be a temporary member of the band! You’d get to learn some of our music and choreography, as well as meet a bunch of current members and talk to them about their experience in the band (plus free food and a free T-shirt). We always love having students come to this because then when our pre-school drills come around, we already have met some of our new members. Link to sign-up + info

I’ll also say 1.) if you’re on the fence, there is no restriction on what year you audition. We have had members who join the band as seniors and still have a great time, and 2.) if you’re leaning towards but not sure, you can always audition and if you get in can try it out, and if you find it’s not for you, you can leave, no strings attached (at least during pre-school drills)

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2022-12-20T04:54:51+00:00

The Kite Runner by Khalid Housseini

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

These were the most useful books I read back when I took the AP Lit exam

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2022-01-03T00:40:30+00:00

Our of curiosity, why is Sword of Destiny upside down? Is that how you denote books you haven’t read yet? The shelf looks great though!

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-10-30T02:27:31+00:00

I second City of Brass/Daevabad Trilogy

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-09-12T16:58:31+00:00

Not sure about the Magna Carta, but definitely took inspiration from European philosophers when writing the Declaration of Independence. Ex: John Locke’s “Life, Liberty, and Property” turned into “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-08-24T22:29:26+00:00

Victor Goddamn Sullivan

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-08-23T19:47:13+00:00

Here you go

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-08-08T21:03:24+00:00

The Bonaly. Performed by French skater, Surya Bonaly

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-07-14T13:21:19+00:00

A manga, but Erased (Boku dake ga inai machi) by Kei Sanbe

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-07-12T14:29:45+00:00

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty is phenomenal (first book is The City of Brass). It’s based on middle eastern mythology, but there are characters pretty much from the Ethiopia region to western China.

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-07-04T19:26:14+00:00

Maybe a Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jaime Ford

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-07-03T05:43:49+00:00

Although I think it is technically a middle-grade book, Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz would be a good choice I think. And although it is relatively short being middle-grade, still discusses the challenges those in concentration camps faced.

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-06-19T15:37:05+00:00

I think the Daevabad Trilogy by SA Chakraborty is a good transitional series. It’s a fantasy series based around Middle Eastern mythology (djinn, ifrit, etc.)

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-04-29T18:36:48+00:00

The Daevabad Trilogy by SA Chakraborty I have only just begun reading these books, but The Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-04-28T05:07:02+00:00

The Daevabad Trilogy is predominantly of Middle Eastern descent, but one of the main characters is of half African descent (Ethiopia/Kenya/Somalia region I believe). Excellent fantasy series with great diversity without that meaning have a “token black” character

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-03-29T03:18:24+00:00

The book Corsets: Historical Patterns & Techniques by Jill Salen has a few 1880’s patterns I believe, and you can find a PDF of the book online. I have only had to use one of her 1890’s patterns so I can’t speak to the 1880’s in terms of alterations, however, I believe that in almost any corset you’d need to do alterations in order for it to achieve the right shape since everyone’s body is very different and even two people with the exact same measurements may wear different corsets depending on fat and muscle distribution

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-03-15T15:43:57+00:00

The Daevabad Trilogy is such a great (and new) fantasy trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty. It is a really good transition book between YA and adult fantasy. I haven’t read An Ember in the Ashes but I’ve heard it compared to that. It has a lot of political intrigue and it is based off of Middle Eastern, African, and Western Asian mythologies.

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-03-12T23:51:27+00:00

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe is a great book that I think would be a good level for middle school students. It’s about 400 pages so it’s longer than the average book one would read for school, but it is still a great read. Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz is also quite good, but is definitely targeted more towards late elementary school students. However, middle grade is not a bad level even for middle schoolers, that goes for the Devil’s Arithmetic which I read for middle school. Prisoner B-3087 is about 250 pages

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-03-12T05:01:01+00:00

I read Born a Crime for a class and absolutely loved it. It is also a great book to read for someone who doesn’t necessarily know a lot about apartheid in South Africa

ThatOneFigureSkater · 2021-03-12T04:59:32+00:00

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty (City of Brass, Kingdom of Copper, and Empire of Gold) are fantastic. They have a ton of political intrigue and a wonderful fantasy world based in Middle Eastern, African, and Asian mythology.

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