Application Submitted!

This morning, I woke up and finally pushed that submit button for my application to residency. It's done! I finally finished filling in all of those experiences and am finally happy with the dreaded personal statement. I picked my programs -26 right now, but I will likely increase it to 30 by the end of the week. There are a few more programs I need to do some research on and apply to.

Quick explanation on this application process for those of you who don't know how it works.
1. apply to residency
2. wait for interviews
3. go to interviews
4. rank schools 1-20 (or however many) in your preference of where you want to be
5. the residency programs rank the applicants they interviewed in order of their preference 1-100 or whatever
6. the rank lists go into a computer and then some mathematical magic happens and
*poof*
7. you hope a match works out between your rank list & the programs rank list

I know it's confusing.

So....I'm sure you are wondering where have I applied?
- I have applied all over the U.S. - from as far west as California to as far east as Illinois, including everything in between - utah, nevada, arizona, texas (who ever thought that I might end up in texas again? - and actually there are a few programs I really really like there), nebraska, missouri, and more

and I'm sure you are wondering why in the world did I apply to so many programs?

Well...the glitch in the plan is that...I've found someone



This silly boy who somehow convinced me to date him for over the past year and who buys me ice cream (see above) - I can't imagine going to residency without. So....we're going together!
Sief and I are couple's matching, which means we apply to programs in the same area (they don't have to be the same program, preferably near each other in geographical location) and then when we enter the match our rank lists are connected.

This was a really big decision for us, because since we are applying together that expanded the number of programs we applied to in order to increase our chances of matching.

Wish us luck!