The third Friday in March is Matc h Day in med school circles, the day when 4th year students learn where they have "matched" for their residencies. We all took the day off to head down to campus with JP to find out what would be happening to us for the next three years.
Here we are headed to the ceremony:
There was an hour long skit performed by many of the 4th years at the beginning, and Abigail was fairly attentive with snacks and regular potty breaks. The auditorium was packed and everyone was excited and nervous.
After the skits, they called up the students one by one, in no particular order, to find out their fate and announce it on the stage. In this blurry picture, you can vaguely make out JP and Abigail up on stage telling everyone that JP matched here in Tucson and will be doing three years of pediatric residency here!
We were excited about the idea of staying and JP is also happy about the other students from his class who will be in his program as well. It was intense as some people were literally jumping up and down on stage and others were less excited about where they were ending up.
Luckily, JP was called up in the first third of people so Abigail and I then went to wander around until everyone had gone up while JP stayed to find out where his classmates were going.
We checked out the flowers,
spent a lot of time in the gift shop, checked on basketball scores (this was also the first friday of March Madness), and read magazines in the hospital lobby.
At the end, there was a dance number and then cake!
We went out to lunch and then celebrated by talking a hike over to Sabino Canyon and getting our feet wet:
Some of us also got our pants wet.
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