Graduation Party

[Howfunitis]

Way to early to plan one? Maybe wait till after he matches? ( if he matches )
What's everyone thoughts? When is it safe to know he is actually graduating?


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[Deebs]

Match and graduation are unrelated. Go ahead and start planning (unless he's been notified that he may not graduate).

[MarissaNicole]

To be honest graduation was very anticlimactic after match. We had a small party at our new place once we moved and combined it with my nephews junior high graduation.

I don't think it's too early to start planning one. You'd know if there were issues with him graduating now. Although your DH may want to wait until after match to plan one. But really regardless match you should celebrate the end of med school. Just realize that moving plans may make it difficult/stressful. Most residency programs have you report in some capacity in June.

I think you can start brainstorming one now, but maybe not talk about it with your DH until he knows he matched.

Wife of a PGY-6

[corn poffi]

I agree with MN. I'd wait to see where he matches before getting too in-depth. The med school actually put on a graduation party when R graduated. That was a lot of fun, and we didn't have to pay for it.

There is so much going on around graduation, I'm not sure if we would have had time for a party!

In other words, wait until you know where you're going before going nuts with the planning. You might not feel up to planning a party and a move at the same time.

[ladymoreta]

Our apartment was full of moving boxes, but we had everyone over. It was fun! I vote go ahead and start planning - give yourselves something to get excited about while you wait on match!

[Howfunitis]

I think you can start brainstorming one now, but maybe not talk about it with your DH until he knows he matched.

Wife of a PGY-6

In other words, wait until you know where you're going before going nuts with the planning. You might not feel up to planning a party and a move at the same time.

give yourselves something to get excited about while you wait on match!

Learned how to multi quote on tapatalk... Yay! Yes! Definitely won't be telling him anything until it's closer to graduation since it will be a simple dinner/party. He's not a big party goer but I'd like to see him drunk for once in my life lol

Ahh, the move!!! I'm hoping it will be easy but I've already started planning for the move about 2 months ago since baby girl will be 2/3 months when we do and our stuff is scattered between 3 houses 😬😬

And lastly yes, figured if I could have something else to do since I found out the DO match is 2 weeks away and we will know if he matches into Surgery. I definitely want to throw something!! First in his generation to graduate college but more so he finished Medical School. While some of his relatives might not see it this way, I've been on this road with him just as long as he has been 😊


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[SoonerTexan]

We just celebrated with family, but it was still fun


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[alotofyarn]

We just got takeout and had all of our family eat at the house. Restaurants are crazy with everybody else going out at that time, and we didn't want to have to deal with figuring out who was going to pay and all that, since his family can be crazy. This was low key and a lot more enjoyable.

[WolfpackWife]

I'm in the process of nailing down a date to host one at my parent's house in their backyard. Since it will be warm, it should be perfect. That and the fact that 99% of the people we'd like to celebrate with are in NC, it makes the most sense. Hopefully we'll be in the process of moving back so we'll have multiple things to celebrate!

[MrsInTheMiddle]

Graduating medical school is a huge accomplishment. Although Match Day might be more significant for you as a couple, your families will be more likely to be interested in attending a graduation party. I didn't throw a party for DH, and I wish I would have when we moved closer to our families for residency.

At the time of graduation, we were living in a tiny NYC apartment, and his family and my family made the trip. Up until his big day, he kept insisting how nice it would be to have everyone over and cook a meal. I thought he was absolutely crazy. Once he realized how impossible that would be considering our tiny apartment was fully of boxes, we ended up at our favorite barbecue restaurant.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

We had a small party after his graduation. We made it southern themed because we were moving back south. It was fine but very low key - all stuff I could do ahead. I was surprised by how many events there were that weekend and having DD (she was 5 months), I didn't have much time to go crazy with prepping as much as I normally would have.

[Howfunitis]

I spilled the beans!!! He isn't much of a party person so I figured some couple of months will be enough "prep" time for him to adjust and he already admitted this is out of his hands and it's happening. I'm so EXCITED!!! Location is either his moms house, aunts house or cousins house.
And that's how far I've gotten


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[rufflesanddots]

Glad you're throwing a party. It is something to celebrate, even if they celebration is small. I'm trying to be better about celebrating the "small stuff" in life (not that graduating med school, especially after being the first in his family to go to college, is "small"). I hope you have a great time!

We have a wonderful friend interviewing for the DPT program here. If she gets in, DH does the MBA, and I do the MSW part-time, we'd all graduate the same weekend. I've already planned to rent out the backroom of the grad student bar so all three families can converge and tell us how amazing we all are. As a reminder, she has yet to be admitted to DPT, DH has yet to even apply for the MBA, and I haven't heard back about MSW. But a girl can dream!!

[MAPPLEBUM]

I've been planning to do s combined party for the three residents in DHs class since we're all friends. One is going into general, the other is moving for fellowship, and we're obviously staying. I think because we're staying -- DH gets a week off and then right back at it he does NOT want a party. I believe his words were "why? I'll finish and then just start getting ass fucked by them for another two years"

But I think that's stupid. In the least we need to celebrate as an accomplishment / goodbye to his friends.

[MarissaNicole]

I've been planning to do s combined party for the three residents in DHs class since we're all friends. One is going into general, the other is moving for fellowship, and we're obviously staying. I think because we're staying -- DH gets a week off and then right back at it he does NOT want a party. I believe his words were "why? I'll finish and then just start getting ass fucked by them for another two years"

But I think that's stupid. In the least we need to celebrate as an accomplishment / goodbye to his friends.

Yes, training is long you have to celebrate every milestone. It started as a joke but I threw my DH and his coresident a "half way there" party because 7 years is a long freaking time.

Wife of a PGY-6