u/Aggravating_Reason81

Polo, sando, and skirt: Tiktok shop
Bag: Christy Ng

Margaret Bourke-White took this picture in Louisville, Kentucky, in early 1937, right after the Ohio River flooded and left roughly 175,000 people homeless in that city alone. She photographed a line of Black flood victims, many of them holding buckets and bags, waiting for relief supplies in front of a billboard advertising “World’s Highest Standard of Living,” complete with a smiling white family driving a car with their dog.

Bourke-White was on assignment for the brand new Life magazine, and this shot ran in the second issue ever published, instantly becoming one of the defining images of American inequality during the Depression. The billboard itself was part of a real National Association of Manufacturers ad campaign meant to promote patriotic optimism, which makes the photo land even harder once you know someone actually paid to put that sign up during a time like this.

This started because I was procrastinating from studying.

I’m a medical student, and at some point I got tired of rewriting the same ugly lecture notes over and over again. So I started making my own artsy handwritten notes- basically condensed versions of lectures with diagrams, tables, mnemonics, and the random little details that professors love putting on exams.

Then a friend asked if she could buy a copy.

I initially thought, “Sure, why not?” and sent her one for a few pesos. Then another classmate asked. Then someone I had never actually spoken to messaged me asking for a different subject.

That’s when I accidentally created the world’s most boring tiny business.

The “product” is basically highly specific medical-school study material. I make the notes, the more colorful the better, export them as PDFs, and sell them digitally. No inventory, no shipping, no fancy website. Just files that stressed-out students can download at 2 AM before an exam.

The weirdest part is that the more niche the material is, the more useful people seem to find it. A general biology reviewer isn’t particularly interesting, but something like “everything you need to remember about this one obscure parasite that your professor LOVES” apparently has a market.

I didn’t start it thinking it would make meaningful money. I just wanted to make studying less painful for myself.

Now I occasionally make more from a few hours of organizing notes than I expected, and I get messages from students saying things like, “Your table literally saved me before the exam.”

Honestly, that’s probably the most rewarding part.

I don’t think I’m going to quit my actual career and become a Professional PDF Merchant™ anytime soon, but it’s been a surprisingly fun little side project.

And there’s something hilarious about realizing that one of my most valuable assets is apparently a beautifully formatted document explaining things I was desperately trying to memorize myself. 😭

If anyone else has accidentally monetized something incredibly niche and stupidly specific, I’d love to hear about it.

EDIT: Wow I didn’t know that a lot of people are interested in buying my medical school notes. I created a Kofi account if you’d want to buy them. You may visit it here: https://ko-fi.com/s/16bc5242c4

Thank you for the support guys 💓

This started because I was procrastinating from studying.

I’m a medical student, and at some point I got tired of rewriting the same ugly lecture notes over and over again. So I started making my own artsy handwritten notes- basically condensed versions of lectures with diagrams, tables, mnemonics, and the random little details that professors love putting on exams.

Then a friend asked if she could buy a copy.

I initially thought, “Sure, why not?” and sent her one for a few pesos. Then another classmate asked. Then someone I had never actually spoken to messaged me asking for a different subject.

That’s when I accidentally created the world’s most boring tiny business.

The “product” is basically highly specific medical-school study material. I make the notes, the more colorful the better, export them as PDFs, and sell them digitally. No inventory, no shipping, no fancy website. Just files that stressed-out students can download at 2 AM before an exam.

The weirdest part is that the more niche the material is, the more useful people seem to find it. A general biology reviewer isn’t particularly interesting, but something like “everything you need to remember about this one obscure parasite that your professor LOVES” apparently has a market.

I didn’t start it thinking it would make meaningful money. I just wanted to make studying less painful for myself.

Now I occasionally make more from a few hours of organizing notes than I expected, and I get messages from students saying things like, “Your table literally saved me before the exam.”

Honestly, that’s probably the most rewarding part.

I don’t think I’m going to quit my actual career and become a Professional PDF Merchant™ anytime soon, but it’s been a surprisingly fun little side project.

And there’s something hilarious about realizing that one of my most valuable assets is apparently a beautifully formatted document explaining things I was desperately trying to memorize myself. 😭

If anyone else has accidentally monetized something incredibly niche and stupidly specific, I’d love to hear about it.

skincare goes beautifully until sunscreen enters and suddenly i'm shedding eraser dust from my face 😭

so did this stupid little test with the same sunscreen + same amount of Pilgrim, Minimalist and Deconstruct.

Pilgrim was the least dramatic here. super light, settled fast and barely rolled up when i rubbed sunscreen over it.

but forearm ≠ face and this definitely does NOT tell me which Vitamin C is “better”. literally just which one fought least with this sunscreen on my skin today.

also apparently i might just be applying everything like cement.

do you wait between serum + sunscreen or rawdog the entire morning routine in 90 seconds like me

That unusual lump isn’t something stuck to the eye—it’s a limbal dermoid, a congenital growth made of tissue such as fibrous tissue and fat. In this particular photograph, the dermoid contains multiple hair follicles, which is why it can genuinely appear as though hair is growing directly from the eye. The lesion sits at the inferotemporal limbus, where the cornea meets the white of the eye.

The case is associated with Goldenhar–Gorlin syndrome, a congenital condition that can affect development of the face, ears, eyes and other structures. Limbal dermoids are one of its characteristic eye findings. Larger dermoids can cause astigmatism or interfere with vision, although they have virtually no malignant potential.

This cute dress is a discontinued piece by LoveByLulu unfortunately.