Published: Friday, 3/20/2015 - Updated: 1 minute ago

BY VANESSA McCRAY BLADE STAFF WRITER

Anxiety gave way to applause today as 166 fourth-year University of Toledo medical school students learned where theyll serve their residency in a scene filled with whoops and cheers that played out simultaneously across the nation.

Match Day is the thrilling, grand-finale for medical students. Its when they find out where a computerized program run by the National Resident Matching Program has placed them to fulfill their residencies, which take three to seven years to complete depending on the students specialty.

Among the UT students who learned their residency match results today was Sonya Naganathan, daughter ofUTs interim president Nagi Naganathan, who will go to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, among her top choices.

Mr. Naganathan addressed students at Stranahan Theater just before they rushed from tables decorated with blue and gold balloons to the front of a room, where they picked up envelopes containing their results. He compared the excitement to the day his daughter was born.

I wish you all the very best, but you will always be part of the Rocket Nation, he said.

PHOTO GALLERY: Click here for more photos from the ceremony

Students were joined by family and friends at the event, stopping to snap photographs and confer with other students after ripping open, or sometimes hesitantly unsealing, their envelopes.

So many hugs ensued.

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UT medical students meet their 'match'