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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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Entropy+ Dissolves

Yesterday morning, students in search of the most overpriced, mediocre sushi on campus were greeted by a bizarre sight: Entropy+ no longer exists. For the past few months, the store’s shelves had been getting progressively more messy and chaotic, culminating in this strange spectacle. The leading theory suggests that, by …

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A pie chart with the following data: "adrenaline junkie" is 16.7%, "crash test dummy" is 22.2%, "racing movie stunt double" is 52.8%, and "drunk driver" is 8.3%.

Man named Enu goes into hiding after Passover seder

Although it's been nearly a year since that Seder, I am still in fear for my life. The incident started as a simple invitation. Several of my jewish friends invited me to a Passover seder. “You get four glasses of wine,” they said. “It’s like Thanksgiving with three hours of …

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Making Money on Campus

The unfortunate financial situation you’re in is not uncommon among new students. You may have managed to get into CMU — yippee! — but you had to give up your life savings and right arm in order to pay tuition. While Valentine’s Day will never be the same with the …

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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 Missouri driver's license with all fields blank, labeled "DIY Fake ID".

CMU Computer Science has gone WOKE!

Imagine that you’re a new student at Carnegie Mellon University, and it’s your first day on campus. It has long been your dream to graduate from CMU’s prestigious School of Computer Science, and today marks the first step of realizing that ambition. You walk into Gates and look around with …

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Back to School at CMU

It’s once again that time of the year for students to prepare to return to Pittsburgh for another semester at dear ol’ Carnegie Tech. And what better way is there to kick off the new year than with a trip to the bookstore for some back to school supplies? …

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Snowman animated by rogue BME students

At 3 am on Wednesday, 12/05, a team of exhausted BME student researchers made a major leap in genetic engineering, by successfully animating a snowman. The snow creature – humanoid with rounded limbs, standing around four feet tall – is powered by the highly bioengineered carrot forming its ‘nose’. The …

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Readme Crime Report

README is an accurate source of information which prides itself on accuracy. Safety is very important to all the staff on README and we value the lives of all our readers. However, my boss also told me to write a crime report on only the not lame crimes this week, …

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A color-by-numbers of a wintery scene, where every section is numbered 1 for white.

Human Mating Calls: The Bird Perspective

Humans are among nature’s most social animals. They are renowned for their group migrations, cooperative foraging, communal roosting, synchronous breeding aggregations, precise parent–offspring interactions, coordinated group defenses, and intricate territorial and courtship rituals. In these and other contexts, and indeed in most moments of their lives, humans’ capability to navigate …

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Updates from Physics

An announcement sent out earlier this week to Carnegie Mellon University students has created widespread controversy and discourse. The email, as seen below, disclosed an important warning for all students to avoid the Gates Hillman Centre on 11/25/24.

Many on campus are worried about the potential implications of …

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Reasons Why a Nice Jewish Boy Like You Isn't Married

1) You won’t let me set you up with Rachel Cohen

Rachel is such a nice girl. I’m sure you two would have a lot in common. I saw her mother at Barbara’s shiva last week. Do you remember Barbara? Such a shame! And you know what her mother …

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Freshman's Guide to Getting Laid

Welcome to CMU, class of 2029+. When you first step onto campus, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the staggering number of clubs to join and people to meet, but if you're anything like us at readme, your first priority will always be one thing: sleeping with freshmen.

We've …

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Commonly Asked Dinner Q's

Whenever you bring home a new loved one for dinner, it’s inevitable that your parents will ask you questions about them. Bringing home your new copy of ReadMe is no different. Today we will discuss some of the questions you can anticipate will be asked of you and your new …

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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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Steam Tunnels Missed Connection

I was once going on a leisurely night-time stroll around campus buildings in November, which offers me the comfort of heating, and to give me the opportunity to explore buildings I otherwise don't have classes in. Doherty hall, in particular, is a complicated maze to the non-art student — and …

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An honest review of this horrid, cursed magazine

Somehow I have found myself as an editor for Readme. You start leaving a few grammar suggestions in peoples Google Docs and all the sudden they make you an editor. Being an editor for the premier comedy, satire, and news publication sounds glamorous, but in reality it is a hell …

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Campus Activity Report

Our usual crime reporter Abe James is not Jewish, so I have taken up the responsibility of reporting on recent crimes which may or may not be affecting the Jewish community at CMU. As a fill-in, I do not take this position lightly, and seek to report on only the …

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CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • CMU student skips Halloween party by dressing as Godot • Readme's own Fulke Fuchs supports Admin's declaration that "Trump" is a curse word • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Gelt still more real than crypto • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Florida legalizes abortion “if the fetus shows early signs of ‘a homosexual disposition’” • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • POLLS: President May Be Elected • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • You won't remember anything from Carnival anyway, and other reasons why you should text that girl • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Victim Escapes Samsara • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Heart in Work now considered dangerous conditions, scientists aghast • CMU sends too many acceptance letters, Class of 2029 cancelled • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • Lube offered for Wean holes • Broadway to begin recruiting directly from Greek Sing auditions • English department to get $10 million to convince more people to drop out of English • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Rope and stool salesmen loitering outside particularly difficult finals • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist • Spinning benches found to be migratory ­ where do they go? • Tenth dentist speaks out • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • CMU student skips Halloween party by dressing as Godot. • Readme's own Fulke Fuchs supports Admin's declaration that "Trump" is a curse word • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Florida legalizes abortion “if the fetus shows early signs of ‘a homosexual disposition’” • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • POLLS: President May Be Elected • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • You won't remember anything from Carnival anyway, and other reasons why you should text that girl • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Victim Escapes Samsara. • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected. • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Heart in Work now considered dangerous conditions, scientists aghast • CMU sends too many acceptance letters, Class of 2029 cancelled • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • Lube offered for Wean holes. • Broadway to begin recruiting directly from Greek Sing auditions • English department to get $10 million to convince more people to drop out of English • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Rope and stool salesmen loitering outside particularly difficult finals • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist. • Spinning benches found to be migratory ­ where do they go? • Tenth dentist speaks out • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video