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Submit to Mossy Bits!
Call for Submissions
Mossy Bits, the department's nearly annual graduate student
creative arts journal, needs your submissions for the Spring 1997
edition. We're looking for poetry, short fiction, essays,
travelogues, contest submissions, music, drawings, photography,
computer art, and computer animation, among other things. Anything
that can be transmitted on the Web and is reasonably entertaining is
fair game. So while sculpture is out, if you want to create a virtual
sculpture and submit a Java program that lets viewers manipulate it,
go right ahead. We won't stop you.
Feel free to contact us if you need help scanning, digitizing,
recording, or otherwise Web-ifying your submission. Send all
submissions, suggestions, and comments to mossy-bits@cs. The
deadline for submissions to the 1997 edition is Friday, March 7.
Why Submit to Mossy bits?
- For the fun of it - While this is a slight
oversimplification, there are basically two things you can do in grad
school:
- Choice #1 - Reverse engineer a program to solve the distributed
object-oriented least-squares simulated-annealing three-level cache
bipartite graph problem in O(lg n) time.
- Choice #2 - Write haiku about Sesame Street characters.
Which would you rather do?
- For the educational benefits - Graduate students who
submit to Mossy Bits graduate an average of 43% sooner than students
who don't submit. The data supporting this is overwhelming. At
least, we think it would be overwhelming if we actually bothered
collecting any.
- For the fame - Students whose works are published in Mossy
Bits are regularly accosted by fellow students, by renowned authors,
and by foreign heads of state who just want to shake their hands and
thank them. Former publishees have had to hire squadrons of
highly-trained bodyguards just to keep their screaming fans from
rushing up to them and prostrating themselves in homage.
- For the valuable cash prizes - Actually, our supplier of
valuable cash prizes backed out on us. The deal for a year's supply
of Turtle Wax also feel through. Sorry.
Mossy Bits - It's more fun than what you're supposed to be doing.
Illustration by Berkeley Breathed, copyright 1985