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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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Researchers discover brief existence of Marnegie Cellon

Scientists have been studying unusual patterns of molecules in space for decades now, which tend to be artifacts of well-known universal phenomena, like supernovas.

However, one of the latest studies of these molecular “fingerprints” has yielded a result far more surprising than anyone could have ever imagined: A specific …

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A dimly lit black-and-white photo of a corridor with a shadowy creature  running toward the camera.
"Is your GPA below 3.0? Did you fail your last midterm? Will it take a miracle to pull your grades out of the gutter? You don't need a miracle. You always have another option. ENLIST NOW!" [background fades to camo pattern]
A set of six Tarot cards, with designs including "122 AIV", "Stack'd Underground food poisoning", and "abstinence."

Readme's Moderately Late Guide to Choosing your Freshman Dorm

As a freshman, freshwoman, or fresh non-binary person, part of your experience will be to live in one of CMU’s 13 premium housing options or Donner House. Without further ado, here’s Readme’s guide to everything you wish you’d known when you’d ranked your housing choices. We’d have published this article …

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I Was Abducted and Brought to the Mellon Institute

It was a normal Thursday night, meaning I had one tequila soda, one IPA, three tequila sodas, and a Celsius. I was walking back to my dorm from Squirrel Hill when a bright light appeared over me. All of a sudden, I found myself falling over. I assumed it was …

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"CMU Crying Club: Wanting to learn what CMU's all about? Tired of crying alone? Has the Carnegie workload finally beaten the life out of your eyes? Join CMU Crying Club! Now partnering with Concepts for even more tears" [stick figures crying]

Inside ReadMe Legal

Due to the substantial inquiries regarding the inner workings of ReadMe & Co, I have been chosen to represent the ReadMe Legal Department in disclosing the functions and responsibilities we adhere to in order to maintain ReadMe as a corporation and ensure the continued freedom of all ReadMe employees.

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Hunt Library is queerbaiting us - OPINION

Hunt Library is queerbaiting us, and I won't stand for it any longer. Hunt was constructed in 1961, but it didn't have exterior lights until 2010, when people stopped gaybashing and everything went to shit. Hunt Library thinks it serves. It needs to stop trying to make Cunt Library happen. …

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Rawdogging Bungee Jumping in 2025

The greatest generator of culture this side of the Alleghenies is back at it again – the Brown of the Rust Belt, Carnegie Mellon University. A new trend has emerged amongst Tartans, primarily English, Art, and Psychology (they can’t fix themselves) majors, which has been dubbed “rawdogging bungee jumping”. This …

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A color-by-number of a flag, where the entire flag is numbered 1 for red.

A Disease for Every Department

CFA
Architecture: Sick building syndrome
Art: Rabies Design: Mono ( type, lithic, tonous, nucleosis)
Drama: Hysterical pregnancy
Music: Tinnitus
CIT
BME: Plague
ChemE: Overdosing
CivE & EnvE: Tetanus
ECE: Herpes (both are 40% of the population)
EPP: No disease, just getting repeatedly run over by a car
MSE: …

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A word search which, when completed, appears strangely similar to a certain four-panel comic.

The Wheel and its affects on our children

It’s the latest craze, the vogue, a revolution, and it’s rolling off the shelves. If you’ve lived in ancient society in the last few lunar cycles, you’ve heard of it: the wheel.

The wheel has transformed our world swiftly; be it agriculture, transportation, cheese, or construction, they’ve already become …

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A color-by-numbers of a wintery scene, where every section is numbered 1 for white.
Cobalt-60 rods labeled "drop and run", with radiation artifacts on the image.
Breaking news: Andrew Carnegie actually an English major! "What the fuck are all these engineers doing here? I founded CMU to teach students how to read Macbeth, not how to build stupid robots. Also why are women enrolled?" - Andrew Carnegie's Ghost
A screenshot of a Gmail inbox with 8 form submission receipts with the subject "cmu missed connections <3", with times between 3 and 4 AM.
"How many times did you vote this election? (Sample Size: 500 students)" [a pie chart with the following data: 0–2 is 29.5%, 3–5 is 47.7%, 6–10 is 15.9%, and 11+ is 6.8%]
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!"
A set of four fake CMU missed connections: "To the asianest asian who ever asianed, I'm so into you (because you're asian)", "To the guy who was walking through Doherty two weeks ago, who I will provide no further descriptors of, you're so fine",  "To the girl I've been unflinchingly staring down for the whole semester, I can't tell if you're into me or deeply terrified of me, but I think we both want the same thing [smirk emoji]", and "I wanna fuck my TA so bad"
A sketch of a bed with a crumpled-up issue of readme and a crumpled-up issue of the Tartan. The readme issue is labeled "readme does aftercare," and it's smoking a cigarette.

Fruity Take on CMU Housing

Back when Welch's was just a grape juice company, Andrew Carnegie was their biggest fan. In fact, in 1905, he built the beloved Welch House in the company's honor (and for a very generous donation) similarly to the Giant Eagle Auditorium or the Trojan Center for the Performing Arts.

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Lockheed Martin ad showing a large piece of military equipment on a hill overseeing a large, populous city. It's captioned "the war on Christmas ends with us."

README Strike Thwarted By Too Many Supporters

The sun was shining as a group of README writers took their places along the sidewalk of Forbes Avenue. Pushing aside Jehovah’s Witnesses, the group raised their signs and began to chant: “Eshaan works us ‘till we’re dust, and he won’t fucking pay us”. Weeks of worker tensions had finally …

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Year 84 of nobody named Oscar winning an Oscar • Physics department studies aerodynamics of unpopular physics professor • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • Spinning benches found to be migratory ­ where do they go? • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Chemistry majors disappointed to learn their degree does not come with a "license to kill" • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Christmas Wishes Granted: CEO Shot • Math Department discovers non-­Euclidean space in Doherty Hall C­level • CMU to sponsor "Twelve-­Hours-­Straight-­Of-­Drinking" event to get rid of stigma that we are a nerd school • CMU Qatar Campus sees record low numbers of students celebrating July 4th • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is) • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half • Rabbi hot?! • CMU passes the Bechdel test after Margaret Morrison merger • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • 98­304 "How to get through red tape" StuCo finally confirmed after years long bureaucratic battle with CMU • Carnival will be a nice time to decompress, says student planning on staying up for 72 straight hours to build a two story house • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Courses to begin offering bonus points for students willing to let TAs heckle them while they take the exam • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • Sisyphus tired of being imagined happy, quoted: "Can one of you help me with this damn rock instead?" • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Excessive lead found in the food and water of JFC • Year 84 of nobody named Oscar winning an Oscar • Physics department studies aerodynamics of unpopular physics professor • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • Spinning benches found to be migratory ­ where do they go? • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • Chemistry majors disappointed to learn their degree does not come with a "license to kill" • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Christmas Wishes Granted: CEO Shot. • Math Department discovers non-­Euclidean space in Doherty Hall C­level • CMU to sponsor "Twelve-­Hours-­Straight-­Of-­Drinking" event to get rid of stigma that we are a nerd school • CMU Qatar Campus sees record low numbers of students celebrating July 4th. • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is). • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half. • Rabbi hot?! • CMU passes the Bechdel test after Margaret Morrison merger. • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • 98­304 "How to get through red tape" StuCo finally confirmed after years long bureaucratic battle with CMU • Carnival will be a nice time to decompress, says student planning on staying up for 72 straight hours to build a two story house • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Courses to begin offering bonus points for students willing to let TAs heckle them while they take the exam. • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • Sisyphus tired of being imagined happy, quoted: "Can one of you help me with this damn rock instead?" • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Excessive lead found in the food and water of JFC