Yesterday was an important day for fourth year medical students nationwide, with 25,000 of them finding out what first-year residency program they've been matched with. But the joy of reaching a major milestone in one's medical career was overshadowed by the joy of romance for one SUNY Stony Brook med student when her boyfriend put a marriage proposal in her match envelope.
Gaby Chancay, a native of Lower Manhattan and fourth year med student at SUNY Stony Brook, received her match day envelope along with all the other students finding out their residency assignments yesterday. But in addition to her official future-defining letter was a note from a "Cupid-affiliated” hospital. Then, her boyfriend and fellow SUNY Stony Brook med student Roger Luo proposed. "This is real. This is real, OK? You are the love of my life, all right? I wanted to surprise you,” Luo told Chancay, according to CBS News. “You are the reason I am here today, the reason I am the man I am, OK? I love you so much. Will you marry me?"
Chancay, who received a match from her top residency choice at Mount Sinai Hospital, said yes. "A godsend—he’s like a perfect man for me,” Chancay, who met her paramour when they were undergraduates at Williams College, said. “So I thank God every day that I met him, and that we’re together." SUNY Stony Brook officials, who helped Luo sneak the proposal note into Chancay's match envelope filmed the whole shebang.
Luo, who is from the Bronx, got matched at New Jersey Medical School/Rutgers, so the two of them will be near each other while embarking on the sort of professional training laid out in medical documentary Grey's Anatomy.
Note that now Chancay is both a doctor and engaged to marry a doctor. Do not let my grandmother read this article.
