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Readme Gets Absurd


My Whirlwind Romance with the Lawnmower Bot

Dear Reader,

I’m back at Carnegie Mellon for grad school, and I have quickly noticed a new hot body roaming the Cut.

I’m sure you’ve noticed them. Sleek, shiny, not afraid of getting their hands dirty, always dressing in a provocative red. From the moment I saw them, …

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Hungry?

Are you feeling hungry? Because I sure know I am. With fall break coming up in only a few negative weeks, CMU students, faculty, and other people who eat things should be aware of the best dining options available around campus.

Doherty Hall:

Doherty is a year-round …

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[TODO]
A handwriting worksheet for the letter C, labeled "C is for Carnegie Mellon", bearing the official CMU stamp.

Quarantine after Pgh Connections Trip

The Office of Community Engagement and Leadership Development recently sponsored a kayaking trip on the Allegheny River for incoming freshmen. While it was overall successful (97% retention rate), some students had a bit of a scuffle with some geese while out on the water. Chaperones noted that three or four …

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An Indiana Jones movie poster for a film entitled "Indiana Jones and the Collapsing Market," with the subtitle "dead men make no sales."
A 122 ed post called "Rizz algorithms" in which the student has pasted their dating profile (and League of Legends/Genshin username, For3verG00ner). Iliano replies "Good luck in your romantic endeavors! Dont get any AIVs!"
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The Homosexual Conundrum

Hello, fellow queers of Carnegie. Recently I have run into an issue that we have all experienced: too much gay sex. Just last week, I received trouble from this dreadful condition. As I was sashaying though campus, I noticed a poster for blood donation. Being a kind-hearted individual, I naturally …

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5-Minute Crafts: ECE!

Ah, 18-100 introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering, truly a quintessential class in the Carnegie Mellon undergraduate experience. Students get to build various fun labs every week, such as building 3 bit adders, a radio, and even programming their own machine learning classification system! To be able to complete such …

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An air-to-air missile with wheels and a buggy-style push bar. It's captioned "new Lockheed Martin sponsored buggy, coming soon to a civilian town near you."

CMU to literally go to war with U of Pitt

PITTSBURGH, Pa. ­ The cannons were readied. The troops were in position. We had the element of surprise.

Twelve twenty­five p.m.

President Jahanian, standing in Napoleonic fashion behind the frontline that had assembled atop Warner Hall, let his arm drop and gave the order. “Fire!”

Four explosions, …

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A Pokemon-style "Who's that buggy?" poster with an outline of a buggy.
A Wikipedia-style donation banner, which descends into caffeine-withdrawal-fueled pleading.
Two soda cans: Carnegie Cola (with a plaid can and a picture of Andrew Carnegie), and mellonade (with a lime green can, watermelon slices, and a picture of Andrew Mellon).

A Letter from the Editor

Following a disappointing showing from readme in the first issue, we were going to fire the entire editorial staff and replace them all with variants of ChatGPT. We are told this will cut costs and raise profits, but unfortunately, due to labor laws, immigration laws, marriage laws, and regular old …

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An extremely detailed comic depicting a freshman (labeled "greedy freshmen") buying food while stating "yes, more food!" while a worker lebeled "overpaid worker" replies "of course! you're our FAVORITE class!". An emaciated individual in tattered clothes lies on the floor labeled "impoverished upperclassmen" is asking "won't somebody think of us?". A bald man labeled "Farnam" is taking a selfie while saying "this way, EVERYONE can take econ!"
Recruiting poster with an Uncle Sam with Farnam Jahanian's face. It says "I want YOU for README. Nearest recruiting station: [outdated pitch meeting location]. By: the CMU KGB"
An Obama-style poster of Farnam Jahanian with a red, white, and blue image filter, with large block letters spelling "NOPE."
Illustrations of stick figures getting injured in various ways, with bold text reading "STOP STICKMAN ABUSE."

Carnegie Mellon Secedes!

A map of the borders of the newly-seceded Carnegie-Mellon Republic In 1967, an offshore platform in the North Sea was seized by a pirate radio operator. This would become the Principality of Sealand, an unrecognized micronation. Recently, CMU's administration was struck with inspiration, and decided to secede from the United States, to form its own micronation.

The sovereign state …

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An unsolvable word search with words like "obvious" and "skillissue."
A library card which has "WHORE" written on it in scratchy lettering.
A target labeled "use this square to swat bugs."
CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • "Surely the middle eastern conflict will not get worse" says increasingly nervous man for 100th time today • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • New StuCo 99­042 announced: "What they DON'T Teach You in CMU StuCos" • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Spinning benches found to be migratory ­ where do they go? • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • Florida legalizes abortion “if the fetus shows early signs of ‘a homosexual disposition’” • Investors in shambles as numbers aren't going up • "My Cute Next­-Door Neighbor Believes in WHAT?": Quirky new meet­-cute sitcom coming this summer • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • SCS opens research problem into computational complexity of hitting N birds with 1 stone • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Pennsylvania state law deems any number greater than 100 “frankly too many” • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • Gelt still more real than crypto • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • Everyone still remembers that time you pulled several times on a push door. Everyone • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11 • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • OpenAI introduces AI-­powered rubber duck trained on millions of rubber duck responses • Philosopher finally discovers the meaning of life, claims it's "not really all that special, honestly" • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1 • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • "Surely the middle eastern conflict will not get worse" says increasingly nervous man for 100th time today • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • New StuCo 99­042 announced: "What they DON'T Teach You in CMU StuCos". • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Spinning benches found to be migratory ­ where do they go? • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • Florida legalizes abortion “if the fetus shows early signs of ‘a homosexual disposition’” • Investors in shambles as numbers aren't going up. • "My Cute Next­-Door Neighbor Believes in WHAT?": Quirky new meet­-cute sitcom coming this summer. • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • SCS opens research problem into computational complexity of hitting N birds with 1 stone • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Pennsylvania state law deems any number greater than 100 “frankly too many” • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • Everyone still remembers that time you pulled several times on a push door. Everyone. • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again. • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11. • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • OpenAI introduces AI-­powered rubber duck trained on millions of rubber duck responses • Philosopher finally discovers the meaning of life, claims it's "not really all that special, honestly" • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1. • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter. • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing