For over two years here at MedHopeful, we have shared information and advice on university admissions, scholarship applications, medical school admissions, success, personal development, and sometimes just random things about our lives. It has been a very enjoyable experience, and there are no plans to stop doing what we are doing. We hope you guys are finding the content we produce helpful.

As you can probably tell from looking around the blog, we decided to try and generate a bit of revenue by putting up some Google ads.

Why? There are a few reasons:

1. Sustainability
This blog costs ~$100/year for the domain and web hosting. It’s not too much of a cost, but if the blog could help pay for itself, why not let it?

2. Timing
We have a reasonable enough amount of traffic where it makes sense to generate some revenue.

3. Getting paid for doing something you really enjoy
We love this blog and it brings us a lot of joy and pride to work on it and hear about the ways it has benefited people. Like many students, we have bills to pay and loans to pay back. If we can make a bit of money doing something that we love, why not?

4. This doesn’t change the fact that the content we produce is still freely available
We’re not selling content or anything like that. Everything we write or make for you guys is still free and here for your benefit. All we’ve done is add a few Google ads.

Anyways, just wanted to provided a bit of an explanation in case anyone was wondering about the additions. I think online advertisements are pretty common nowadays (if you read this blog, you probably also use Google and Facebook, and are used to ads).

I should probably get back to studying for next week’s exam. Hope everyone is doing well!