Match Day 2010

Today was the big day. Match Day. Every third Thursday of March, fourth year med students get the news of where they will be doing their residencies. It is an exciting day. The anticipation builds up for weeks. Bennett is wide-eyed with anticipation. Actually, he didn't even know what was happening!

All of the medical students make the trek down the hallway to their mail boxes to get their letter that will tell them where they matched. It seemed to take Bryan forever. People already had their letters open and the list of where people were going before he made it back. I plugged my ears and said, "Don't tell me, Bryan hasn't come back yet. I don't want to know where we are going before we open the letter!"

Where are we going you ask?

South Bend, Indiana!!!

That's right, land of the fighting Irish. We are thrilled and excited. Bryan will be going into Family Medicine at Memorial Hospital. We will be there for 3 or 4 years, depending on if Bryan does a fellowship or not.


Bryan giving high fives to his fellow colleague, Justin, that matched at the same place!

Bennett giving Dad a congratulating (is that a word?!) pat on the cheek!

Every student gets to put a pin on the map in the location that they are going. The girls each had to take a turn putting the pin in.




Here are the kids waiting patiently for the action to start.

We really are excited to begin a new chapter in our lives. We feel like Indiana is where we are supposed to be next. Now comes the hard part of finding a house and planning a move. What kinds of adventures will we encounter next?