The Match
I've been a little busy lately. It is my vacation, and also my cousin's wedding as some of you may know. Buffalo last week, and this weekend here in New York up in Westchester. The Mehndi was last night, and the Valima tonight, and I have to say it was loads of fun! But of course the other big story is the match...
Yes my friends I did indeed match! I will be doing my cardiology fellowship at North Shore & Long Island Jewish (it's a combined program of the two hospitals). I will be starting in July of 2008, as I have my final year of residency starting in one week (we apply a year early, it's weird). I will say yes I am happy. It is somewhat bittersweet, since it was my fifth pick, and not one of my top 4 as I was hoping for, but North Shore is a great place, highly regarded, and I will have great training. I will definitely be getting my ass worked there, as it is known to be a very busy program, but I must say I am greatful to go there, and so relieved the match is over! It was like biting nails until I logged on to check the result! Oof! I will be going with another friend from Montefiore as well, so that is definitely a great plus, and will make it much more fun. Some of the applicants from my program got their 10th or 11th pick, and two of the 14 who applied from my program didn't match at all, so I should be very happy indeed! It was a rough year for cardiology, super competitive, more than it usually is! The funny thing is, my dad actually did his internship there bacdk in the late 60's! Who would of thought, inadvertanly really following in daddy's footsteps.. Array!
Anyway, it's 230am, im a little tipsy after the super fun Valima, and time to sleep. Tomorrow I'll start feeding y'all stories of the wedding, which really made me remember how much freakin fun Pakistani weddings are! Until then....
Congratulations Daddy's little bablooo... you make us Pakis so proud!
Posted by: Salacious Samosa | June 24, 2007 at 09:30 PM
Oh congratulations, Ali! Following in pappy's footsteps! Another paki cardiologist! yay!
Posted by: QT | June 25, 2007 at 12:52 AM
Congrats :)and well done .
Posted by: Suga | June 25, 2007 at 06:19 PM
congrats on the match man...
Posted by: Terence Mascarenhas | June 27, 2007 at 02:10 PM