Feelings you get when you match

[drivesmecraazee]

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Hey there. I am an MSII and not sure about wich residency I want to apply, I just want to here from you guys (residents, attendings and students who just matched) how did you felt when you got the news, I've heard it's like the happiest moment in one's life, pure ecstasay. It could be the biggest and drunkest party of your life (depends on the personality)
Let's hear it all.

 

[gryffindor]

Unless you don't match into what you wanted. I've heard the scramble process for med students who don't match isn't pretty. In that case, watching your classmates who did match and are being ecstatic isn't very fun.

Edit: Sorry to be so grim. When you do actually match into what you want, it is a feeling of great relief.

 

[DOCTORSAIB]

Hey there. I am an MSII and not sure about wich residency I want to apply, I just want to here from you guys (residents, attendings and students who just matched) how did you felt when you got the news, I've heard it's like the happiest moment in one's life, pure ecstasay. It could be the biggest and drunkest party of your life (depends on the personality)
Let's hear it all.

The night before the SF Match results were to be released I BARELY slept. I think I fell asleep around 4:30am. Woke up 6am. Started checking my email and SDN frantically for any updates. The ophtho forum on SDN had over 75 people viewing it at one time! (normally it's like 2-3 people at any one time). All sorts of unconfirmed reports were being posted about "so and so's brother found out he matched already at X med school, etc."

My anxiety was off the roof! I had worked so hard to get to this point. Could it all go to waste? Anyways, I had my cell phone next to me just in case I got a phone call instead of an email from the PD.

After HOURS of waiting and texting my gf, family, and friends that results hadn't been released yet my cell phone rang at precisely 11am! That was over 5 hours of waiting (actually more like 4 years). I got the call from my PD informing me that I had matched! The feeling I felt at that moment was only paralled by my acceptance to med school (took me almost 5 years to get into med school). Honestly, NOTHING else compares.

I believe there are certain moments in life that one will never forget. For me it was the day I got my ONE AND ONLY med school acceptance (off the waitlist, thank you very much), the day I matched ophtho, the day I get married and the birth of my first child.

 

[Long Dong]

The night before the SF Match results were to be released I BARELY slept. I think I fell asleep around 4:30am. Woke up 6am. Started checking my email and SDN frantically for any updates. The ophtho forum on SDN had over 75 people viewing it at one time! (normally it's like 2-3 people at any one time). All sorts of unconfirmed reports were being posted about "so and so's brother found out he matched already at X med school, etc."

My anxiety was off the roof! I had worked so hard to get to this point. Could it all go to waste? Anyways, I had my cell phone next to me just in case I got a phone call instead of an email from the PD.

After HOURS of waiting and texting my gf, family, and friends that results hadn't been released yet my cell phone rang at precisely 11am! That was over 5 hours of waiting (actually more like 4 years). I got the call from my PD informing me that I had matched! The feeling I felt at that moment was only paralled by my acceptance to med school (took me almost 5 years to get into med school). Honestly, NOTHING else compares.

I believe there are certain moments in life that one will never forget. For me it was the day I got my ONE AND ONLY med school acceptance (off the waitlist, thank you very much), the day I matched ophtho, the day I get married and the birth of my first child.

Oh snap, I forgot Ophtho was early match. Congrats.

 

[yaah]

I thought match day was fairly anticlimactic, actually. The annoying part was that you knew that they knew your results, yet you had to go through the silly ceremony to get the results given to you. Our school threw all the envelopes in a bin and randomly picked them out, I ended up about #85 out of 100 (#100 got a cash prize for being last).

I knew my match would be one of two places which were fairly different and in different cities, and I was curious to know, but it wasn't what I would call ecstasy, even though I got my top choice. More like, "well, OK, that's where I'm going to be." However, I have been told I have issues with showing appropriate emotion, so take that with a grain of salt. Some people jump up and down and swig champagne.

 

[docB]

If you're happy with your match the ~48 hours after are pretty cool. However, the fear of internship soon sets in. For an idea about that search for threads like "Terrified of internship" "scared" etc. that crop up between Match day and July every year.

 

[DOCTORSAIB]

Oh snap, I forgot Ophtho was early match. Congrats.

Thanks brotha man.

 

[user2]

Our school threw all the envelopes in a bin and randomly picked them out, I ended up about #85 out of 100 (#100 got a cash prize for being last).

Do people typically open their envelopes one at a time? I kind of thought everyone would just open them all together.

 

[Dr Serenity]

Depends on how your school does its match day ceremony. At mine, we'll all go to our student mailboxes and pull out our envelopes, pretty much at the same time. No cash prizes involved, but the local media does make a big deal out of it.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Its pretty exciting but unlike others here, I've actually had happier days in my life than match day. Then again there are other things more important to me than my career.

 

[yaah]

I was tempted to stay home and just get the email later on in the day. But my parents wanted to see it, and you get your results a whole hour earlier if you play the game the school wants you to play.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Do people typically open their envelopes one at a time? I kind of thought everyone would just open them all together.

Our school used to do the "open one at a time, announce" thing, until someone apparently had a meltdown when they didn't get the match they wanted. Now we do the "open all at same time" thing.

 

[Castro Viejo]

Hey there. I am an MSII and not sure about wich residency I want to apply, I just want to here from you guys (residents, attendings and students who just matched) how did you felt when you got the news, I've heard it's like the happiest moment in one's life, pure ecstasay. It could be the biggest and drunkest party of your life (depends on the personality)
Let's hear it all.

I kinda had a feeling of where I would match for residency, so it wasn't much of a surprise.

But on Match Day my school had us all in a big lecture hall and passed out envelopes with our matches in them. They didn't want us to open them until 9AM on the dot, and all at once. So 9AM came, everyone opened their envelopes. Cheering. Clapping. High-fiving. But way up in the back row there was a row of chicks who just all started bawling, like they just learned their parakeet found its way into somene's Chinese food last night. It was messed up, man...

 

[gutonc]

I kinda had a feeling of where I would match for residency, so it wasn't much of a surprise.

But on Match Day my school had us all in a big lecture hall and passed out envelopes with our matches in them. They didn't want us to open them until 9AM on the dot, and all at once. So 9AM came, everyone opened their envelopes. Cheering. Clapping. High-fiving. But way up in the back row there was a row of chicks who just all started bawling, like they just learned their parakeet found its way into somene's Chinese food last night. It was messed up, man...

We did it this way (I'm beginning to think we went to the same school) and had a guy in the front row go nearly catatonic (matched at #7 after getting the "rank to match" love song from his #1). Kind of made me wish I'd skipped the day.

 

[drivesmecraazee]

Man those stories are sad...

 

[Castro Viejo]

We did it this way (I'm beginning to think we went to the same school) and had a guy in the front row go nearly catatonic (matched at #7 after getting the "rank to match" love song from his #1). Kind of made me wish I'd skipped the day.

I found it fairly amusing because of all the giant egos in my class that were deflated. The group of derm wannabes, who thought they were oh-so-much-better than everyone else in the world matched to their prelim positions but not to derm, so none of them got the "You're screwed and now have to scramble" email on Monday of Match Week, and when they found out... Boy... You'd think there'd be some catastrophic vacuum effect that would bring down the old Basic Science Building because their heads shrunk so damn quickly...

Match Day is great. Bring a video camera.

 

[skypilot]

I found it fairly amusing because of all the giant egos in my class that were deflated. The group of derm wannabes, who thought they were oh-so-much-better than everyone else in the world matched to their prelim positions but not to derm, so none of them got the "You're screwed and now have to scramble" email on Monday of Match Week, and when they found out... Boy... You'd think there'd be some catastrophic vacuum effect that would bring down the old Basic Science Building because their heads shrunk so damn quickly...

Match Day is great. Bring a video camera.

I thought you would find out if you only got the prelim position on Black Monday?

 

[MSI-Scrub]

I found it fairly amusing because of all the giant egos in my class that were deflated. The group of derm wannabes, who thought they were oh-so-much-better than everyone else in the world matched to their prelim positions but not to derm, so none of them got the "You're screwed and now have to scramble" email on Monday of Match Week, and when they found out... Boy... You'd think there'd be some catastrophic vacuum effect that would bring down the old Basic Science Building because their heads shrunk so damn quickly...

Match Day is great. Bring a video camera.

Interesting that you find so much amusement in other people's misery, but yeah, shouldn't they have found out they didn't match to derm and have been given the chance to scramble??

 

[Castro Viejo]

Hmmm... The story back then was that they never got the email and that's why they were so crushed. I really have no idea if they got the email or not.

It's not that I take so much pleasure in another's misery, it's just that these guys and gals were really, really, really just pompous. Junior AOA and all that stuff. Thought they were above the rest of us and didn't have a problem letting you know.

Sometimes when you're bombarded with that kind of stuff for a while and in the end they didn't get the validation they so desperately sought, it's kind of amusing.

Hubris. Perhaps they should've learned that in grammar school.

 

[MSI-Scrub]

Hmmm... The story back then was that they never got the email and that's why they were so crushed. I really have no idea if they got the email or not.

It's not that I take so much pleasure in another's misery, it's just that these guys and gals were really, really, really just pompous. Junior AOA and all that stuff. Thought they were above the rest of us and didn't have a problem letting you know.

Sometimes when you're bombarded with that kind of stuff for a while and in the end they didn't get the validation they so desperately sought, it's kind of amusing.

Hubris. Perhaps they should've learned that in grammar school.

I guess you feel validated now...

 

[Castro Viejo]

Vindicated.

 

[drivesmecraazee]

Hmmm... The story back then was that they never got the email and that's why they were so crushed. I really have no idea if they got the email or not.

It's not that I take so much pleasure in another's misery, it's just that these guys and gals were really, really, really just pompous. Junior AOA and all that stuff. Thought they were above the rest of us and didn't have a problem letting you know.

Sometimes when you're bombarded with that kind of stuff for a while and in the end they didn't get the validation they so desperately sought, it's kind of amusing.

Hubris. Perhaps they should've learned that in grammar school.

I agree.

 

[sophiejane]

I'm grateful we didn't have a ceremony. Ugh. Yeah, it's fun when you get your #1, and you wish you had a room full of people to share it with, but there's nothing like looking over at your friends who didn't get their #1 to bring you down fast. I just think it's a little sick to make a huge public ordeal out of something that turns out pretty bad for a minority of people.

 

[drivesmecraazee]

I'm grateful we didn't have a ceremony. Ugh. Yeah, it's fun when you get your #1, and you wish you had a room full of people to share it with, but there's nothing like looking over at your friends who didn't get their #1 to bring you down fast. I just think it's a little sick to make a huge public ordeal out of something that turns out pretty bad for a minority of people.

you're a path resident, right? or was it EM? can't remember...

 

[drivesmecraazee]

oohh now I remember...you're a FM resident