Thursday, March 18, 2010

Match Result by the numbers

The match was today, so we just found out where we're going. Instead of just jumping to the important part, I thought I'd try to put it in context first:

It has taken:
8 years of higher education
2 kids
$200k+ of education debt,
2 months waiting for interview invitations,
12 interviews spanning about 2 months and 7 states,
4 rental cars,
17 nights at hotels, family/friends/stranger's houses, and even in one of the above rental cars,
3,133+ miles driving to interviews,
16,900 frequent flyer miles for the same interviews,
way too much money towards those travel expenses,

6 weeks deciding how to rank them,
5 more weeks waiting to find out,

That I'll be doing 3 years of Emergency Medicine residency at

Loma Linda University Medical Center

3 comments:

Three Lads and a Lis said...

CONGRATS you guys!

Corey said...

"California Here I Come!" That's probably on your mind's right now! How exciting! Congrats on getting such a great match!

Jenny said...

I'll bet Alice is overjoyed that you'll be back in California! That's great news. I hope it means we get to see you a little more often.