<p>^Yes, surgery is like at least 12 hours, and it was no food / water /bathroom breaks either during D’s surgery rotation. She said that the hardest was being thirsty. She could carry protein bars in her while coat pockets, but not small water bottles. And then if you drink, there is a problem with the bathroom break. The feet pain situation did not bother her as much which was a surprise for me, I thought that this would be the biggest challenge, but it was not.</p>
<p>Thanks again to everyone for their good wishes. Right back at you! </p>
<p>Regarding her being done with her match list - D will be heading out of the country and wanted the match list done before she left. Typically she fine tunes everything until the last minute so this was a rather refreshing change. :)</p>
<p>I am really just posting this to see if it works after the site update.</p>
<p>I’m posting to see if this site works</p>
<p>Update: we are under three weeks away from the wedding (my D to her surgical resident fiancé—and said surgical resident is hoping to switch to Anesthesia and move back to the city where his future wife is living). And we are at two weeks (from tomorrow) away from finding out if our future son in law was successful in his attempt to “suicide match” back here for anesthesia. People asks me if my daughter and her fiancé are nervous about their wedding….the answer is NO. but they ARE (as are we all) really nervous about match. All positive thoughts and prayers are appreciated. </p>
<p>Good luck to your D’s fiancé and your D. Wish they have the good ending within two weeks.</p>
<p>Thanks. Good luck to EVERYONE waiting for Match results!!</p>
<p>Next week is rolling, best wishes, keep us posted!<br>
Next year for us, D. was told to start working on personal statement over spring break. Not sure if she will have any other breaks before applying.</p>
<p>We got great news today—he matched! So, since he did the “suicide” match thing, we know he got the program back here!! He will find out on Friday which preliminary spot he got (he ranked several—all here), but regardless of that, we know he will be HERE. So we are all relieved and happy…so different from last year.</p>
<p>Great news, church mom!</p>
<p>This year’s Match participants already know this but I thought that it might be of interest to the observers…I am not techie and don’t understand how this works it seems that there was mess up in the coding on the website where medical students in the match go to check their status. By looking at a particular view in their account they could figure out where they matched. Supposedly the person who initially noticed the mistake had some friends do the same thing to see if it was legit and then the information was posted on SDN. Eventually it was also up at other med school information sites. This was not a hacking incident, it was a mistake by the website. An email went out to those in the Match and the website was shut for a period of time after the powers that be became aware of what was happening. A young medical student and aspiring medical journalist explains it much better than I have at the Tea with MD blog. It seems that a group of M4’s already know where they have matched. D said that numerous members of her class already know (though they aren’t broadcasting that fact). She is not one of them.</p>
<p>Well I just read the entire SDN thread about it - absolutely fascinating. I can’t imagine what would be going through my mind if this were my year. I kind of wish I had gotten to live through the early exhilaration of “is this real…i think it’s real…oh my god it’s real!” I asked one of my classmates if he knew and to guess how many of our classmates know (~25% is his guess). An interesting thing that I didn’t see anyone on the SDN thread mention doing this but my friend did see his match and is going to feign surprise so as not to ruin the match day experience for his parents. It was interesting to see one person on SDN mention that the fact that their parents were not coming to match day helped them decide to look on monday night.</p>
<p>Given that I believe schools who have their students announce their match results to an audience are in the vast minority, I wonder if soon they will abandon the two step match reveal and go with Monday as the full reveal day with SOAP running through Friday after the big Monday reveal.</p>
<p>IWBB, I wonder if they would ever change it…in theory having SOAP take place before Match Day allows some of the SOAP group to maintain their privacy regarding whether and when they matched if they so choose. This year I wish the powers that be would just tell everyone immediately. It is ridiculous that so many people already know and the rest have to wait until Friday.</p>
<p>I looked at the SOAP threads today. I can’t imagine the stress. There has to be a better way to do this. </p>
<p>Ellen,</p>
<p>My point is that if you got rid of the “everyone open their envelopes in the auditorium at noon” and instead just had a party after SOAP then people could still maintain anonymity about not matching in round 1.</p>
<p>On my phone and it’s not letting me make a 2nd edit. All of these match day traditions originated in a time when matching and/or scrambling into a position was a given (ie when there were more spots than applicants) now that that’s not the case it’s time to rethink how match is handled and I wonder if this will serve as any sort of impetus for change.</p>
<p>Agreed.</p>
<p>I saw this pretty early in the process on SDN and told my daughter about it, and she contacted her fiancé. He was at work, though, and did not have time then to look into it. He was pretty sad that he missed the window before it was shut down….he just wants to know exactly what he will be doing during that first year. He does know, though, that he WILL be in the same city as his new wife (and us!!). Just not whether he will be doing another surgical intern year or an anesthesia prelim year. I think I got those terms correct. :)</p>
<p>Forgive me for saying this (and I know that there are people who live for this stuff) but I found the actual Match Day event to be quite chaotic and little barbaric. It would have been very hard to be in the middle of all of it and receive a less than desired match. We are local so my husband and I went - we made a point of arriving just before the envelopes were opened. DD is beyond delighted with her match. I hope that everyone hearing today is equally pleased with their result. Many people seemed to have friends and partners there but I would say that at most 20% had parents. </p>
<p>Congratulations! I’m so happy for you and your family, churchmusicmom. Today must be the happy wedding day. </p>
<p>I hope that churchmusicmom and her entire family are having a wonderful day! I am still a bit drained from yesterday - I can’t imagine going from Match to a daughter’s wedding. What an emotional rush. Enjoy it, CMM!</p>