Spaghetti code is what happens when you use GOTO statements.



You call it spaghetti code because you end up with GOTOs all over the place that you can't keep track of. I used it in my first programming assignment ever in Pascal, because it was in the text and I wanted to do cool things. The teacher looked at me very seriously, called another teacher over, and they told me not to do it again.

Spaghetti is bad.

The last issue of the IW is what one would qualify as spaghetti paper.



Real newspapers do this all the time but actually doing it myself feels gross. It's hard to mentally keep track of where articles go when you can't fit the whole thing on one pages. Very easy to miss one. There were six continuations this issue because there was too much content to Tetris perfectly by category - ergo hardly any filler pictures :(

Anyways here's this issue's page-by-page commentary.

1. It took a long time to figure out how to put elections, toboggan, and pictures all on the same page. Originally I was gonna go for BIG PHOTO OF WINNERS at the top with election results on the side and the toboggan article underneath, but then the filler pictures would have have super weird proportions. So here we have a fairly nontraditional layout. I don't see left-side-pictures very often. It is good and the Concrete team co-captains approved.

2. This is the editorial I was writing when I realized I needed a hobby! Then Nader laughed at me when he realized I was suggesting there was more to life than work and school.

3. I was anticipating the solitary confinement article to be, yknow, more than the 200 words it ended up being but it's for the best otherwise I'd have to start cutting content. This was tight.

4. Another issue, another prof. He wanted his formal picture used rather than a "Prof XYZ in his natural environment" picture at his desk. Not sure why, his desk was freakishly clean and tidy.

5. I had no idea two people were gonna submit #BellLetsTalk articles but I'm glad they did.

6. WHY another article about the lack of female profs? Never again. The only person who liked this article was the person who contacted me after doing the original investigation. Also lol tinfoil hats.

7. There was a part where I panicked thinking "it fit when I roughed it in before the draft was copyedited! Why doesn't if fit anymore? Where did the extra words come from?" Then I realized I pasted the wrong article in.

8-9. The exec reports page has never, ever been so cramped. Also you can totally tell which ones submitted it last minute on Sunday.

10. One page that worked fine without coddling.

11. This was one of the last pages laid out. You can tell because of all the spaghetti leading to article continuations on other pages, and the awkward picture of eggs at the bottom.

12. Admittedly my article on HP was the last one written.

13. A normal page.

14. I hate to think what happens if the TMI columnist tries one-upping herself next issue. Also that Superbowl article started out 50% longer than it is right now. Guess who had to pick through that article after the copy editors gave up and sort through every bloody play?? National Felon League indeed. Also I made an mistake - the Gringotts robbery takes place during Part 2, not Part 1.

15. A nice, normal page of comics.

16. I've come to realize that the crossword author overcompensated for the easiness of the previous crossword, and that ALL THE SUDOKUS ARE THE SAME. FML.