Paid for by: Your SHIP Waiver
KGB Presents: readme
Editor-in-Chief: Eshaan Joshi
All the news unfit to print!
Pitch meetings Sat 5:00 pm, DH-1211

Readme Summer School


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 …

Read more

An Analysis of Spending Habits of Woke People

In the recent culture war waged by conservatives in the United States of America, a central tenet is as follows: "go woke, go broke"¹. This begets the question, is there any semblance of truth to this claim? We analyzed hundreds of years worth of financial literature as well as statistics, …

Read more

How to make your neighbor's crawl space feel like home

With rising house prices and global climate change, many of us are making the sensible switch to cheaper, more sustainable housing, such as the attics and crawl spaces of our former neighbors. But when you come home from a long day of gender studies, you want to relax in a …

Read more

New ID Loopholes allow for underage drinking!

Readme is proud to announce that it will be hosting a party this Friday night to welcome all incoming freshmen present for o-week, and yes, there will be alcohol. To be invited, simply bring a copy of this week’s Readme issue with you and show it to our bouncer. “What …

Read more

Before Baker and Porter, they were Hunter and Gatherer

Baker Hall and Porter Hall: We all know them, love them, get lost in them, and indulge in erotic fanfiction of them from time to time. “But what you may not know is their deep and rich history of cultural evolution,” says anthropologist X. Cavator.

“It’s easy to look …

Read more

A Letter From The Editor

Well, It's been a couple weeks of the semester and it seems like the seasonal depression has finally kicked in for the freshmen. And by seasonal depression, I mean that they're depressed no matter what the season is. The energy and mirth of youth is over, and now there is …

Read more

The Scramble for Element 119: The Race Continues

The quest to discover new superheavy elements has in the past been analogized to a race. Since the discovery of berkelium, in 1946, scientists from various laboratories around the world have competed, and at times collaborated, to discover new elements, leading to a string of discoveries of element 97 up …

Read more

"CIT is proud to announce...the new 'Intro to Civil Engineering' Lab Kit!" [toolbox full of wet concrete, with a shovel on top]

On the Four Questions

First of all, if you’ve ever heard of the Four Questions, chag sameach. If you haven’t, be grateful you won’t have to do them when you’re forced into joining your hypothetical Jewish friends (who are all older than you, obviously) at their several-hour-long celebration of a liberation they claim they …

Read more

Novel Methods of Preventing Wasteful Elevator Use at CMU

Introduction

When John Elevator first unveiled elevators at the Chicago World Fair in Des Moines IA, 1462, the technology immediately garnered worldwide adoption. Buildings could access untold verticality once the ascension of hundred-floor constructions was no longer bounded by the feeble power of human muscle and bone, but …

Read more

Freshman Randomly Selected to Eat Posters off Walls of Wean

Following a year of intense budget cuts, the CMU front office has taken a radical new approach to keeping the designated poster areas clean around Wean Hall. One poor sap has been plucked from the freshman class this winter break and tasked with consuming all papers, posters, and club-related paraphernalia …

Read more

ROTC caught building "stealth" booth

It seemed like a normal night at first to Scott Snuffy, an unassuming Dietrich student, until while walking home from a late-night recitation, he noticed something odd. "A wooden plank seemed to lift itself into the air, all on its own." Few believed him, until he tried recording the phenomenon …

Read more

I Hate Baker-Porter

Baker-Porter Hall is the most evil building on all of CMU’s campus. Its construction is proof of hell's existence. In order to graduate from the architecture program you have to successfully map Baker-Porter, no one’s done it yet.

Baker-Porter cannot decide if it wants to be Baker or Porter. …

Read more

Auntie Readme's Advice Column

The people have asked questions and I, having no knowledge about anything in my head save for a handful of terminally online references, have found it fitting for me to respond as confidently as possible. Here goes!

should i take a job at lockheed martin if they …

Read more

Anti Anti Aging Cream

Have you ever realized shit, I look TOO youthful? Have you ever been rejected from ordering copious amounts of alcohol for being “underage”? Well, here at Dave’s Rare and Unusual New Kreations, our team of award-winning scientists has discovered a new way to acquire alcohol!

Introducing Anti-Anti-Aging Cream! It's …

Read more

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 …

Read more

A photo taken with a smartphone camera at night of one of the sculptures of a person at the base of walking to the sky, with harsh front-camera selfie lighting. A Snapchat-style text overlay reads: "Nooo don't walk to the sky, your [sic] so sexy ahaha"
CUC gym administrators remove all first-floor machines to make space for a merchandise sweatshop • Daylight savings time to start moving forward 1 hour and 10 every March to account for inflation • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • End of semester reflection: That O-week situationship was a really good idea • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Ambitious professor covers 437 slides in a single lecture • In catastrophic scheduling snafu, every club at CMU has scheduled a meeting for the exact same time and date; "we really couldn't have predicted this", says student who scheduled a GBM for 5 pm on a Monday • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • CMU Administration shocked why students are still sad, "We gave you guys a Carnival?" • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Man-Woman Interaction institute forced to extrapolate from low sample size • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again • TechSpark welding class closes due to numerous math students attempting to make Klein bottles • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • CMU kills suspected 122 cheater in targeted strike; 18 civilians dead • CUC gym administrators remove all first-floor machines to make space for a merchandise sweatshop. • Daylight savings time to start moving forward 1 hour and 10 every March to account for inflation • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • End of semester reflection: That O-week situationship was a really good idea. • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Ambitious professor covers 437 slides in a single lecture. • In catastrophic scheduling snafu, every club at CMU has scheduled a meeting for the exact same time and date; "we really couldn't have predicted this", says student who scheduled a GBM for 5 pm on a Monday. • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • CMU Administration shocked why students are still sad, "We gave you guys a Carnival?" • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Man-Woman Interaction institute forced to extrapolate from low sample size. • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again. • TechSpark welding class closes due to numerous math students attempting to make Klein bottles • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • CMU kills suspected 122 cheater in targeted strike; 18 civilians dead.