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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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Last Rites: The Final Words of a Student Trapped in Gates

ReadMe’s most dedicated journalists have recently discovered a letter at the bottom of a Rohr Cafe – La Prima coffee cup, believed to be written by a student who never made it out of the Gates and Hillman centers. Out of respect for this fallen student, we have decided to …

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A quote attributed to Eric Adams in which he prophesizes his own mayorship on January 1st, 2022: "Thirty-something years ago, I woke up out of my sleep in a cold sweat. God spoke to my heart and said, 'you are going to be the mayor January 1, 2022.' And the message was clear. God stated, 'you cannot be silent, you must tell everyone you know.' I would go around the city, pastor, and I would tell everybody 'I'm gonna be mayor January 1, 2022.' People used to think I was on medication." [I checked, this is a genuine Eric Adams quote - rtosh]

Snowstorm Hits Donner, Proclaimed "Still Livable"

Larry: Good evening. We're coming to you live from the arctic tundra that was once the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, where the great Blizzard of '48 has crippled the nation and, more importantly, threequarters of a freshman dorm. I'm here with first-year student Kevin, who is currently enjoying his …

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Scotty Dog Cheating, Martha Is Speechless!

Once again, the cheating allegations cannot escape Scotty Dog who was seen leaving Schenley Park with Clifford the Big Red Dog in photos posted to X and Reddit by Paparazzi. However it seems these allegations are not just allegations as videos were taken of Clifford kissing Scotty Dog. Scotty Dog’s …

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A picture of a white sand beach with the text "The Summer I Turned Into A Cocaine Addict" superimposed.

Readme Responds to The Allegations

Let it become beknownst to whomstever accused our collective of various “allegations”, that they are all factually incoherent and blatantly untrue. This response will be organized in the following format — an untrue statement made by an adversary, and our rebuttal.

“Readme will be responsible for various cases of …

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"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%]
Recruiting poster with an Uncle Sam with Farnam Jahanian's face. It says "I want YOU for README. Nearest recruiting station: [outdated pitch meeting location]. By: the CMU KGB"
A corrupted image of a silhouette of a woman dancing on a beach, with the sky blood red and fiery. Distorted text reads: "hot singles have abandoned us. Beautiful young babes in a distant land, ever longing for true connection. Ready to fuck, join now!"
Four logos: "work" with the "o" replaced with a scotty dog, "pipe it up" with bagpipes, "hang in there" with an emoji-ified Farnam Jahanian, and a sketch of Wean labeled "concrete jungle where dreams are made of".

README Insurance Scam Comes to Light

Last night readMe’s very own chief editor Eshaan Joshi was extradited by the Trudeau administration under several counts of insurance fraud. It was found that for the past three years he has been claiming several life insurance policies from readMe staff along with abusing Canada's generous healthcare policy.

The …

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Dinner questions for your normal human parents

  1. So, Mr. and Mrs. ___, what do you do for work?
  2. Oh, software, that's cool. And you said your wife's an artist?
  3. Oh she does? What's paper mache?
  4. Oh god holy shit oh fuck
  5. No no it's fine, there's just some culture shock …

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"CMU Graphic Design Club, sponsored by README (please join, we need artists)" / "graphic design is our passion!!!!" [lots of rainbow colors and poor-quality sketches]

Iliano Spills All, Denies Ties to CIA!

On November 7th, README secured an interview with one of CMU's most famed figures: Dr. Illiano Cervesato, the professor for Principles of Imperative Computing. Reproduced below are some of the most intriguing, incriminating, and downright intransient questions and answers we got from this unprecedented collaboration.

Your class is infamous …

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An Analysis of CMU's "Ring-By-Spring" Culture

As a former freshman, I know that most of you are coming into CMU with one goal in mind: marriage. You may think this is a far-fetched dream, but by winter break, your peers will be proposing left and right. Enormous patches of grass on the Mall will die from …

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CMU was always a social experiment

Carnegie Mellon. You all know the name – founded in 1900 with the supposed intention of being a “technical institution” where our “hearts are in the work.” These are all lies that you have been fed by Big Behavioralism, because we know the real reason that CMU was founded.

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An ad for a work-study employment opportunity which pays $1250 to $2404 weekly. It offers good job security for post-graduation, including a guarantee of multi-year employment. You can travel overseas, work with land and sea vehicles, and develop close networks with major American tech companies. If interested, reach out to a recruiter with your name, other biographical details, and previous combat history. (The background fades to a camo pattern.)
"READ ME presents: Tear-Off Universal Final Cheat Sheets™ (Patent Pending) © ®" [a rectangle with 16 pages of illegibly dense text, surrounded by dashed tear lines]
A photograph of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit, with a cartoonish cat face edited over his head.
A plinko board in a voting machine box, with buckets at the bottom bearing images of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and Vermin Supreme.

O-Week Crime Report

Hello freshmen, welcome to the best years of your life! And to everyone else, we are so glad you didn’t drop out or quit. While you all were busy, we at readme were also busy, sniffing out crime on campus. Really getting into the dirt for this one. Interested? Read …

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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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Vote Wean Hall!

With the 2024 US presidential election just weeks away, README is proud to announce that we're officially endorsing a candidate for the first time. It was a tough decision; on one side we have a candidate who did not fall out of a coconut tree, and on the other side, …

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Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • Reviewing Cathleen, Adam, their real estate business, their “bless this mess” wooden sign, and their three sons Craig, Creg, and Craigë • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • Congress deems every white male citizen over the age of 80 honorary senator • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Naughty List leaked • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Math Department discovers non-­Euclidean space in Doherty Hall C­level • Several students observed staring transfixed at Pausch Bridge's RGB lighting: "If not gaming, why gaming colored?" • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96 • README Purchases Scottish Terrier Mascot • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Programmer forgets to specify; throws a birthday ksh • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • CMU passes the Bechdel test after Margaret Morrison merger • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • Yet another Tepper startup discovered to be overly complex Ponzi Scheme • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Supreme Court overturns Naughty List affirmative action • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • OPINION: I want everyone to be happy, except my favorite musicians • Gelt still more real than crypto • First-year on r/cmu congratulated for having a "pretty fire schedule." • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Worst kid in your Hebrew class insists on making Purim play a musical • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • QUIZ: What your opinions on the scrotal asmmetry of statues says about you! • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • ReadMe so funny that they invented CMU to house it • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • Reviewing Cathleen, Adam, their real estate business, their “bless this mess” wooden sign, and their three sons Craig, Creg, and Craigë. • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • Congress deems every white male citizen over the age of 80 honorary senator • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Naughty List leaked. • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • Math Department discovers non-­Euclidean space in Doherty Hall C­level • Several students observed staring transfixed at Pausch Bridge's RGB lighting: "If not gaming, why gaming colored?" • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96. • README Purchases Scottish Terrier Mascot. • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Programmer forgets to specify; throws a birthday ksh. • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • CMU passes the Bechdel test after Margaret Morrison merger. • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • Yet another Tepper startup discovered to be overly complex Ponzi Scheme • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Supreme Court overturns Naughty List affirmative action. • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • OPINION: I want everyone to be happy, except my favorite musicians • Gelt still more real than crypto. • First-year on r/cmu congratulated for having a "pretty fire schedule." • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Worst kid in your Hebrew class insists on making Purim play a musical • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • QUIZ: What your opinions on the scrotal asmmetry of statues says about you! • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • ReadMe so funny that they invented CMU to house it.