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Readme Goes to Carnival


Sweepstakes forbids new live-birth method

Just weeks ahead of Carnival, Sweepstakes has dropped a bombshell on all buggy teams: due to existing rules prohibiting mass loss during a race, the “live birth method” is officially banned. In previous years, buggy drivers would impregnate themselves prior to Carnival, nourishing the fetus with Stack’d and melatonin gummies. …

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There will come soft Tanks

“The bathrooms are down to your left, past the staircase,” he threw out to no one in particular. His hardened grey face stared, with a thousand-yard stare, into an assortment of broken glass, bent metal, and the vandalized remains of a few abandoned bikes that had been left for far …

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Readme Retraces Its Steps

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Hostile Booth Architecture

As Carnival season closes in on us, it is important to impress upon the larger Carnegie Mellon community the necessity of intelligent booth design. Of course, building codes and safety regulations are all well and good, but student organizations must be aware of a more fundamental factor affecting the quality …

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A screenshot of a Gmail conversation in which a student asks for an extension on C0VM due to being on the front lines of a battle, described in intense and gory detail. A reply from Iliano Cervesato states, "if you can type, you can code."
An illustration of a Scotty dog pawing at the legs of someone who's just entered through a door.

October 29, 1929: "Block Tuesday" Leaves Freshmen Destitute

At Carnegie Mellon University, the end of the 1920s saw unprecedented financial ruin for many first-year students. The meal-block economy had crescendoed throughout the decade, with blocks selling for a whopping 50% of their original worth. Unfortunately, this lucrative exchange could not last forever. The block market imploded, wiping out …

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Tepper Unveils New Hell Campus

“We fought hard to ensure our students a prime location. It’s like a stu-cation! Which is what we’re calling it when one of our students goes to Hell.”

  • Dr. S. A. Tan, Office of Tepper Study Abroad Programs

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Another Night in Pittsburgh

The whispering rain splats ungracefully onto the cracked pavement. A lightning strike goes unnoticed amongst the flickering neon signs. Those outside cling tightly to their overcoats and rain hats, unable to fully face the despairing night. A Pittsburgh university. A piano. A tragedy. I sit in my malaise, staring at …

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"New study abroad program announced: Hell. Contact your advisor to apply today!" [image of Farnam Jahanian shaking hands with the devil, surrounded by flames] "*Tepper stuents will receive priority"

Freshmen take part in Tate McRae raves in abandoned CaPS offices

If your evening strolls ever take you past E-Tower at dusk on Fridays, you may inexplicably be drawn to an ethereal siren song issuing from some secluded room on the first floor. I advise you, dear reader, to resist the temptation to investigate – for I have probed the depths …

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I'm a Straight White Male: Here's why SCS's Gender Imbalance is Concerning

The only thing starker than my grades is the SCS gender imbalance. Though I am a straight, white male, I feel it is my duty to speak up about this issue. It’s a problem that keeps me up at night, long after I’m finished with my evening meditation and journaling …

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CMU Cancelled, Go Home

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

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History's first booth

HUNT SPECIAL - Carnegie Mellon University’s springtime Carnival brings with it many beloved traditions, perhaps most recognizable of all, Booth, a weeklong mad sprint through constructing marvelously untrustworthy houses. But did you know that the roots of booth trace back to far before CMU’s founding? Back before the scientists of …

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Could Drunk Driving be Better than Sex? 7 good reasons (and 1 bad one)

One of the great tragedies of the human condition is that two of the most forbidden of sins are also the simplest pleasures of life: sex and drunk driving. But for one brief moment, allow me to let comparison be the thief of joy as I pit these iconic vices …

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Carnegie Crime Report

README prides itself on informing the students of Carnegie Mellon on local news and major events. Due to a large influx in crime on and near campus, README is publishing the details of several crimes so students know what to look out for. Safety is README’s top priority as an …

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Tarring and Feathering: The Skincare Hack You've Never Heard Of

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been living through crazy times. Every piece of news from the town crier spikes your cortisol, disgusting soldiers keep asking to sleep with you, and herbal teas have become STUPIDLY expensive. (Seriously, girls. You might as well throw your money in the Boston Harbor.)

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README experts analyze a game of Chess 2.0

We have some absolutely riveting chess gameplay between RandomBot and Saffron here today. In the first game of RandomBot's career, they put up a courageous fight against a rotating chess veteran, managing to promote a pawn, defend from queen-rook mate, thwart rook freedom, and prevent checkmate throughout the seventeen and …

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Student devises innovative new method to attend early morning lectures

Early morning lecture: a macabre tragedy that befalls many a student. Some force themselves up in the morning and forge their way there. Some simply give up and sleep through it. One enterprising CMU student has managed to do both.

“I have an 8 am,” says sophomore Juan Merower. …

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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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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
I have an opinion on Israel Palestine and you can too! • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Local gnome discovers his house has been stolen by SDC booth • Gelt still more real than crypto • New CaPS meeting locations include ledges, bridges, and intersections • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Hardest job imaginable: affirming therapist to drone strike today • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale • The Revolution is coming, just let me get off my SSRIs first • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is • ReadMe bigger than Beatles, says Jesus • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed • Wind storm politely opens door, walks inside CMU building, and breaks every computer • Dedicated Gender Studies student finds clitoris, loses track of penis • For the upcoming Readme "Female" Issue: "Susan Be Shopping" • I have an opinion on Israel Palestine and you can too! • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Local gnome discovers his house has been stolen by SDC booth. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • New CaPS meeting locations include ledges, bridges, and intersections • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Hardest job imaginable: affirming therapist to drone strike today. • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale. • The Revolution is coming, just let me get off my SSRIs first • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is. • ReadMe bigger than Beatles, says Jesus. • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed. • Wind storm politely opens door, walks inside CMU building, and breaks every computer. • Dedicated Gender Studies student finds clitoris, loses track of penis • For the upcoming Readme "Female" Issue: "Susan Be Shopping"