Y'all, I just sent off my written comps. Our parish priest proctored my test and emailed it in.
I can't even right now. I think I've cried the majority of the past 7 days, either from worrying over my tests or worrying over not being a good wife this whole time or just from plain worry and exhaustion over worrying.
And now to keep worrying until I hear back. So that's fun.
Sometimes being naturally melancholic is the worst.
I think I'm going to go drink a glass of wine.
Monday, July 13, 2015
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Etsy and Pinterest Comparison: Homework Assignment for Week 10
(Dear Readers: I really do promise I'm still here. Comps around the corner, still organizing the apartment...I'm a bit busy these days ;-) here's another homework assignment for ya!)
As a big Pinterest fan, I already mostly understood how Pinterest operates, so I spent most of my time for this assignment looking through Etsy to get a feel for how it works. Both Etsy and Pinterest offer their users the opportunity to search for products and inspiration by interests and categories. While Pinterest leads you away to different websites once you click on pins that are of interest, and also includes pins that are not about items for sale, Etsy is itself a marketplace, mostly for small shops and homemade items. Therefore, while Pinterest might end up showing more brand-name items, Etsy is primarily for smaller vendors. However, Etsy is a one-stop shop while Pinterest merely organizes items of interest into its website, so you must then navigate away to the separate websites to purchase items. If this kind of format were to be used as an evangelization tool, one could organize such a Catholic website into the different types of big topics (Sacraments, marriage teachings, canon law, etc.) and thus utilize and organize Catholic links from around the web into one database. This could help people who want to search for a particular topic, but are overwhelmed by the variety of answers available in a common web-search.
As a big Pinterest fan, I already mostly understood how Pinterest operates, so I spent most of my time for this assignment looking through Etsy to get a feel for how it works. Both Etsy and Pinterest offer their users the opportunity to search for products and inspiration by interests and categories. While Pinterest leads you away to different websites once you click on pins that are of interest, and also includes pins that are not about items for sale, Etsy is itself a marketplace, mostly for small shops and homemade items. Therefore, while Pinterest might end up showing more brand-name items, Etsy is primarily for smaller vendors. However, Etsy is a one-stop shop while Pinterest merely organizes items of interest into its website, so you must then navigate away to the separate websites to purchase items. If this kind of format were to be used as an evangelization tool, one could organize such a Catholic website into the different types of big topics (Sacraments, marriage teachings, canon law, etc.) and thus utilize and organize Catholic links from around the web into one database. This could help people who want to search for a particular topic, but are overwhelmed by the variety of answers available in a common web-search.
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