Referring to how thirsty American medical students are for praise / validation for their lifestyle since it represents so much sacrifice for them

“Matching” is the process by which medical school graduates are connected with hospitals where they do their residency

Maureen is being slightly sarcastic here because:

• Asking med students about matching is a huge meme and is unlikely to generate a good conversation
• In the event that the med student didn’t get a great match (or didn’t match at all!) this will be an awkward question.

A Latin phrase that translates into English as “my mistake” or “my fault”. To emphasize the message, the adjective “maxima” may be inserted, resulting in mea maxima culpa, which would translate as “my most [grievous] fault.”

MoMilli adds: In the Catholic penitentiary rite, the new translation reads “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.” Tom translated Latin in high school for sport.

The Ace Hotel is a meme New York City hotel

A die-in is a play on the “Sit-in” method of protest. Other famous “ins”:

• Bed-in
• Human Be-in

Not to be confused with the No-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL)

An acronym for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology where Maureen Miller went to high school

https://twitter.com/AFMiller/status/312201395665256449

212 and 213 are area codes in NYC and LA, the two cities with Rap Genius HQs

Rap Genius founder and technologist LEMON would later use “all up in technology” as the name for the internal Rap Genius tech mailing list

LEMON – Money Trees (Rap Genius Response to Heroku)

From Heroku’s success story about Rap Genius:

Lehman explained that handling the increase in traffic was made simple with Heroku. Rather than focusing on the intracacies of managing server load, Heroku helped him to continue focusing on developing a solid application.

“There are some aspects of Heroku that make it trivial to scale. You just increase the number of dynos you have and that allows you to scale up without having to make any sort of logical changes to what your applications is doing,” said Lehman. “There’s no way to abstract away all of the details of increasing performance, but from a technical perspective it’s been pretty painless. Heroku guides you through it in a sense.”