We Matched toooo.............

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota!!

We are so excited and so proud of Chance! Mayo was his top choice! I heard too many times that most people don't get their top choice so I had no clue where we would end up! I was OK with going anywhere because it's a minimum of only 3 years. I think I can handle anything for only 3 years...even Minnesota winters (at least I hope so :)

I set my camera out on the counter to take with us to the Match Day Ceremony and when we were half way there I realized I forgot it! The reason? Chance moved it to make coffee and I didn't see it :( Luckily I have smarter friends who didn't forget theirs!!

The matching process has been so crazy. I think I have tried to explain it 100 times and I am still not sure I even understand it?! In short, after you are done interviewing at the schools you applied for an interview and got accepted to interview at, you rank those programs by "favorite" to "least favorite". The hospitals do the same thing. On the Monday before Match Day, the students receive an email to let them know if they have matched or not. If they have, AWESOME...they just sit back and "relax" until Thursday. The ones who didn't match have to "scramble". I really don't understand this process so I won't go into detail, but basically they have a few days to try to find a school with an opening still (out of the ones they interviewed with). I believe they have until Wednesday or Thursday (the morning of Match) to find one. If they don't, they have to wait until the next year to try to apply again.

Once Thursday rolls around, there is a Match Day Ceremony. We all loaded up and went to the Merket Alumni Center for this event. Ella was excited she got to come too! Just before 11am they started passing out everyones sealed envelope with they're fate waiting inside! Each student also got a personalized letter opener to use to open it! No one is allowed to open it until exactly 11am! (they took a long time to speak and call everyones names so we didn't get to open until like 11:08...it was HARD!).

I had heard someone say that at theirs there was a lot of crying and stuff so I was SCARED! It seemed like everyone was really happy at this one?! A LOT of people got their first choice and if they didn't, it was still pretty high up and they were still so excited! I was just at a loss for words! haha. I kind of thought it was going to happen but reality hit when I saw the letter. It will be an exciting adventure for our little family. and I can't wait to start it! Chance will graduate on May 21st and we will move shortly after that. I have already started looking at houses...can't say that I am that excited about what I have seen. Their style of houses and decorating ideas couldn't be more different than mine!! haha hopefully we still fit in there! We will be taking a trip soon to go look at some houses! I will keep you updated!

on our way!









You can kind of see where all the students are going in his class. Not all of them are on there...


It's alomost IMPOSSIBLE to get a picture of all of us where everyone is smiling!



Later on that night we went to the Match Day Dinner... I have a cute picture of us, but just need to get it from the friend who took it :) They did awards at the end...something no one was really expecting and Chance won outstanding Internal Medicine student from all the Internal Medicine Doctors he works with! So so proud of him! All the hard work these last 4 years is really starting to pay off (finally ;)!