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My Relationship with the Ready 2 Ride Mobile App

Yeah, I know she’s unpopular.

I know you want your analog methods back. This is like the NYC Metro card all over for you, huh? Well, I don’t care. I’m in love, and I’m proud of it.

Me and the Ready 2 Ride Mobile app met on the …

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A sketch of a worm saying "boy, I sure do love getting up early!", with a bird flying toward it in the background.

OCs Accidentally Create a Cult

Friday morning students woke up to the news that regular orientation activities were shut down by CMU PD due to orientation counselors accidentally creating a cult. This decision was made in the wake of Carnegie cup’s carnage. While details are murky, efforts to relocate the fence to Wean’s roof, and …

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A map of CMU's campus with many spots labeled. They include such notable Adderall distribution points as "clenched in daddy thicc's cheeks", "wean 9 in the blue glowing rooms", "the daycare", and "CMU Freaky house."
A "WANTED DEAD" poster for spotted lanternflies.

Argumentative Essay

In this course, I (along with my peers) have developed fundamental skills in argumentation—both the synthesis and analysis of argument, and its application in a modern context. In this essay, I have been asked to take a side on one of the most controversial issues in today's America, and to …

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A set of six Tarot cards, with designs including "122 AIV", "Stack'd Underground food poisoning", and "abstinence."

New Squatter's Lawn Competition begins

The U.S. Department of Housing and Development is proud to announce a new initiative to help deal with the growing problem of squatters. Starting at the beginning of February will be the All-American Best-Kept Squatter’s Lawn Competition. The idea is fairly simple, after close coordination with local police departments all …

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To My 8 A.M.s:

Up! We are Up! I cheer myself to rise At the crack of seven-twenty, ‘Fore the sun has hit the skies,

On a wonderous new Monday, I’m triumphantly awake In sheer elation for the 8am that I – with no especially strong feelings – Take.

A truly magical …

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CMU-specific Travel Advisory

With spring break rapidly approaching, CMU has put out a travel advisory against countries that are deemed “unsafe for Tartans”. If you have booked a trip to any of these countries, please reconsider your plans.

Ukraine

Why did you even book a flight to Kyiv?

Spain

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CMU Cancelled, Go Home

Well it was worth a shot. Welcome to hell, Nerds!

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Readme Missed Connections: Wean 5

It was roughly 12:30 pm, Tuesday, October 29th, and I was en route to Wean 7500 for my Mechanics lecture. I enter through Wean La Prima and take the stairs usually, however, I saw that one of the elevators called to go up just arrived at floor 5. The elevator …

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Student Dies of Autoerotic Asphyxiation on Donner Swings

PITTSBURGH, PA In a first-of-its-kind incident for CMU, a student has passed away from asphyxiation by autofellatio, otherwise known as a “self suck incident.” Eyewitnesses report that late Thursday night, the victim approached the playground swings in the Donner Ditch, pulled their pants down, and proceeded to assume a position …

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Carnegie Mellon Updates Enrollment Contract, Since Nobody Reads Those Things Anyway: Here are Some of the Details

In an email sent directly to students’ spam folders, Carnegie Mellon University has announced changes to the contract signed by all students upon enrollment. “Because no one is going to read this,” Provost Jim Garrett writes in the email, “we are proud to announce that we have made some of …

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Best clubs for returning freshmen

For freshmen moving away from home for the first time, making new friends can seem daunting. However, the 350+ clubs at Carnegie Mellon provide plenty of outlets for students to make friends with shared interests. To encourage incoming students to meet others, README has compiled a list of some of …

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My Love Affair with Raymond John Wean

Dear Reader,

It started as most romances do, with a meet-cute in a coffee shop. La Prima Espresso at the entrance of Wean Hall has always been one of my favorite places to grab a drink between my life-threatening engineering classes, but I had no idea just how important …

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The Spinning Jenny is sapphic, actually.

The story you’ve been told about the Spinning Jenny is a lie.

Years of queer erasure and the narratives of straight men have hidden the true lesbian love story that is the Spinning Jenny. While your history books tell you that it was a yarnspinning device invented by James …

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Stop Calling Your Parents So Late At Night, You Whiny Little Bitch

It’s the middle of the night and you feel like shit. Maybe it’s 1 a.m., and you just realized there was something due at midnight. Maybe you’re being kept awake by your fifth cold in three weeks. Maybe it just hit that you actually kinda sorta miss home a little. …

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The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • My dad got both anthrax and smallpox shots, and they didn't even protect him from the IED • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1 • A day in the life of Jane Street's unsuccessful younger brother, Sesame • King Charles III to consider castling • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Optimal formations you and your friends can walk in to block sidewalks on campus! • Rope and stool salesmen loitering outside particularly difficult finals • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale • You think you're a leftist? I'm wearing Che Guevara! • "Nobody's seen the drama students in a month, should we check on them?", says concerned RA • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Strangely, CS student's grade performance lines up with Cursor billing cycle • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • My dad got both anthrax and smallpox shots, and they didn't even protect him from the IED • Paddington 2 makes Citizen Kane look like Paddington 1. • A day in the life of Jane Street's unsuccessful younger brother, Sesame. • King Charles III to consider castling • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Optimal formations you and your friends can walk in to block sidewalks on campus! • Rope and stool salesmen loitering outside particularly difficult finals • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale. • You think you're a leftist? I'm wearing Che Guevara! • "Nobody's seen the drama students in a month, should we check on them?", says concerned RA • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Strangely, CS student's grade performance lines up with Cursor billing cycle