You know you go to med school in Dominica when.....

1) A pack of stray dogs follows you all the way from campus to your apartment door at midnight.

2) You have tried every combination of breads, cold-cuts, vegetables, and sauces at Subway because you eat there every night of the week, and the employees automatically know that you buy two chocolate chip cookies with your sub every time (sorry, but that one was obviously pretty personal).

3) You go to that very same Subway (because there is only one) and they run out of bread. Yea, it's like going to a grocery store that says they ran out of groceries. How is that possible? I'll never know.

4) You can't look to the left on your walk to class every morning because if you did, you would see the alluring beauty of the Caribbean Sea just tempting you to skip class (I haven't done that yet!)

5) A lot of your conversations go something like this, "Hey man, what have you been up to this morning?" "Oh, I've been studying." "Nice, what about this afternoon?" "Yea, I think I'm going to study some more." "Cool, any plans for tonight?" "Well, I actually thought that I might switch things up a little and study." "Sweet, catch ya later."

6) You sit in an un-air-conditioned room for 2 hours for your small group learning (SGL) session, only to find out afterwards that nobody in your group thought to try to flip on the switch that controls the outlet for the air-conditioning. It felt like a sauna in there!

7) You no longer have your natural scent because it has been taken over by the stench of formaldehyde!

8) You tell your blog readers to oppose their pinkie and thumb together, while flexing their wrist to see if they have a tendon that flexes at the base of their wrist called the pulmaris longus (14% of people don't have the pulmaris longus muscle/tendon!) and then realize that it is very sad that you enjoyed telling them this.

9) You start to run out of things to say on your blog because all you can think about are the 19 muscles that exist in the human forearm that you dissected earlier in the week and still need to memorize their origins, insertions, actions, and innervations. Fun stuff!

10) It's Super Bowl Sunday and all you wish is to be back home, not to watch the Super Bowl, but to be with family and friends. Miss you guys! Until next week....