School Matched: UT Medical School - Houston
I am still on cloud nine! I have to pinch myself to remind myself that this actually happened. I will be going to medical school in a mere 197 days.
I made it through Thursday by keeping as busy as possible. And, the internet was down at school, so even if I had the time to look at SDN or TMDSAS, I wouldn't be able to see anything other than the hourglass timer on Internet Explorer. I decided to leave early and snuck out at about 2 pm. That meant that I had about three hours to kill until the 5 pm match. I had let everyone continue under the idea that the match was at midnight. I decided that I would need some time to cry and compose myself if the results were bad. Steven and the kids had gone to the playground and mom was at her house. I watched SDN and the news until I got a clock up and watched the last 3 minutes count down. I had signed into the TMDSAS site and at 5 pm I started refreshing the page. NOTHING. For about a minute nothing changed and then School Matched: UT Medical School - Houston popped up. I couldn't say anything. I just got all warm and fuzzy. I printed off two copies and called mom. I made her cancel dinner with a friend to go to dinner with me. But, I didn't tell her that I matched. I walked over to her house and taped the paper with the match results on it to the window and knocked on the window and turned around to walk to the park to let the rest of the family know. The were walking back down the street. I showed Steven the paper and we hugged and jumped in the middle of the street. Mom was walking through our backyard when I got home and too nervous to be excited. She wanted to hear it from me that it was true.
From there it was a blur of phone calls to friends and family. Steven's parents met us for dinner and we had too much food and too much fun! I really enjoyed that moment. The next day it was really fun to resign my position for the end of the year. I went to the principal and told her I had just resigned. This is not particularly funny since we had 2 chemistry teachers do this already. She just looked at me and I repeated my statement but added "at the end of the year because I was accepted to medical school yesterday!" She came and gave me a hug, as did her secretary. My students gave me standing ovation when I told them.
I have started to send transcripts, do a background check and apply for financial aid. Yippee! Now the dirty work begins, but I have also began to make contact with newly accepted Class of 2012 on Facebook.
But you just can't beat getting an email that starts "Dear Future UT Houston Physician!." Everyone has helped me so much, especially my family and all the work has paid off - I am going to go to medical school, I am going to be a doctor!
I made it through Thursday by keeping as busy as possible. And, the internet was down at school, so even if I had the time to look at SDN or TMDSAS, I wouldn't be able to see anything other than the hourglass timer on Internet Explorer. I decided to leave early and snuck out at about 2 pm. That meant that I had about three hours to kill until the 5 pm match. I had let everyone continue under the idea that the match was at midnight. I decided that I would need some time to cry and compose myself if the results were bad. Steven and the kids had gone to the playground and mom was at her house. I watched SDN and the news until I got a clock up and watched the last 3 minutes count down. I had signed into the TMDSAS site and at 5 pm I started refreshing the page. NOTHING. For about a minute nothing changed and then School Matched: UT Medical School - Houston popped up. I couldn't say anything. I just got all warm and fuzzy. I printed off two copies and called mom. I made her cancel dinner with a friend to go to dinner with me. But, I didn't tell her that I matched. I walked over to her house and taped the paper with the match results on it to the window and knocked on the window and turned around to walk to the park to let the rest of the family know. The were walking back down the street. I showed Steven the paper and we hugged and jumped in the middle of the street. Mom was walking through our backyard when I got home and too nervous to be excited. She wanted to hear it from me that it was true.
From there it was a blur of phone calls to friends and family. Steven's parents met us for dinner and we had too much food and too much fun! I really enjoyed that moment. The next day it was really fun to resign my position for the end of the year. I went to the principal and told her I had just resigned. This is not particularly funny since we had 2 chemistry teachers do this already. She just looked at me and I repeated my statement but added "at the end of the year because I was accepted to medical school yesterday!" She came and gave me a hug, as did her secretary. My students gave me standing ovation when I told them.
I have started to send transcripts, do a background check and apply for financial aid. Yippee! Now the dirty work begins, but I have also began to make contact with newly accepted Class of 2012 on Facebook.
But you just can't beat getting an email that starts "Dear Future UT Houston Physician!." Everyone has helped me so much, especially my family and all the work has paid off - I am going to go to medical school, I am going to be a doctor!
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