Congratulations to all the matched ophthalmology applicants! You are one step closer to your career choice.  It doesn’t appear that anyone from my medical school class will be at my program, but I’m assuming they’ve done quite well. What do the applicants usually do the evening before match day? I can tell you what I did around this time of year in the distant past…

I was out in San Francisco, just finishing up a preliminary year interview. I hung out with the ‘ole bunch of computing programming venture capitalists playing RockBand (it had just been released) until the wee hours of the morning. It was good to see a vision of what I could have been doing had I continued the programming lifestyle instead of going to medical school (posh apartment, Motrin gumball machine at the office, money, odd hours.. ). After I found out that I had matched, I went out to the wharf where the SFMatch offices were at…somewhere out on Beach St. It’s near the Ghirardelli complex. Great fun… Where were you at?

SF Match Ophthalmology headquarters

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