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Readme Summer School


Finals Week Sestina

As I enter the cold concrete cervix of Wean,
the gold plaque of Raymond smells my fear.
I order a coffee that’ll make me shit
out all my self loathing and lack of sleep.
I don’t think I’ve retained a thing from this class.
It might be worth risking the …

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CMU covers Cut and Mall in sand, citing "Being Outside" epidemic

In a rare stretch of good weather, Carnegie Mellon students have taken it upon themselves to spend their limited free time "touching grass." Although students largely found going outside to be enjoyable, CMU's administration identified several insidious drawbacks of the practice. As a result, the university coated the most popular …

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CMU students begin enlisting to improve internship odds

The recent influx of pasty-faced, weak-kneed 18-21 year olds to military recruitment booths has puzzled many. But it seems the phenomenon has a simple explanation: resume building.

“Well, I got rejected from probably three hundred companies,” said one ChemE major we found doing pushups. “Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTX, Northrop …

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Tales from Beyond Frick Park II

The construction of their union was, by all accounts, scandalous. Gates rose first, all brutal confidence and exposed systems. Hillman was slightly sleeker, more speculative, but still almost the mirror image of Gates.

The brutal, pragmatic thrust of Gates penetrated the very shell of the more delicate Hillman, and …

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A poll of students labeled "why were you at a CMU football game?" [pie chart with the following data: "thought it was a 112 recitation" is 35.5%, "I heard chicks dig sports guys" is 4.8%, "lost" is 16.1%, "if a ball hits me I get an excused absence" is 16.1%, and "my friend is in Kiltie and begged me for two hours" is 27.4%]

Field Guide To Sabotage

So, you’ve noticed that CMU’s annual Spring Carnival is right around the corner. Maybe you’ve also noticed the midterm season slump that’s hit campus, stopping boisterous spring semester plans in their tracks. You’ve noticed that your competition for booth and buggy just keeps chugging along while you’ve been left …

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Boeing attempted to bribe us $200,000 to not publish this article

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A Modest Proposal for dealing with after hours noise

It is a melancholy object to those who walk though this great campus, when they see the streets and roads crowded with loud-mouthed hooligans. Studious learners must keep their windows boarded, and their doors shut to keep the noise from irresponsible teenagers who, as they grow up, either turn to …

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Untapped Niches in the U.S. Consumer Market

Dear reader, I have devoted countless hours over the course of years to rear these ideas; at this point, it is as if they were my children, as if I were giving you my children, and these are some of the finest idea children ever to have been brain birthed. …

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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 …

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We need to talk.

There's something I have to get off my chest. I've been wanting to say this for a while, but haven't had the strength to do it. I don't love you anymore, and I don't think you truly care about me either.

It started with our first date. I got …

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MLM vs MLM vs MLM: Everything YOU need to know

The modern world is filled with confusing new acronyms, and it seems like more crop up every day. The most insidious example is “MLM”, an amorphous concept that no person seems to truly understand and which appears to shift meaning with no regard to context.

I speak, of course, …

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A color-by-numbers of a wintery scene, where every section is numbered 1 for white.
An ad for "rent-a-mom", which offers "styles" including "helicopter mom", "soccer mom", and "millennial mom". A disclaimer states "each sold separately. family therapy is at no additional charge."

Optimize Your Garden With These Simple Tricks

Dearest reader, consider this inquiry: You are the sole proprietor of a home garden (a real one, not in Animal Crossing or wherever AOC makes her press releases nowadays). You own the land free and clear. You go out for mocktails every week with the two other gardeners in your …

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"Invasive plants winning the fight? Stab them back. Martial arts training, garden trimming services, occasional humor, and more, at ReadMe." [background is a thorny berry plant with a knife tangled up in it]
A photo of an astronaut on the moon next to a flag displaying readme's logo.
A color-by-number of a flag, where the entire flag is numbered 1 for red.

Readme Sells Out

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A "DIY 2-player word search" on a 3x3 grid with words including XXX and OOO.

SAE Lions Stolen, A Grieving Nation Mourns

A darkness has fallen over the Carnegie Mellon campus. Since we have departed for break, two of our good friends have vanished. Staples of our community have been lost. At first, I had hope that we were all being lied to, that the photos were doctored. Alas, upon returning to …

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Update to "Ain't gunna work on Saturday"

All week I worked at carnival building my booth
Stayed up till 5am, shaving years off my youth.
Come Friday morning it was time to connect the final piece
But then it was almost shabbos, so I had to cease.
When people started walking in the whole booth collapsed,
The …

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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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C@CMU: CMU's cultural touchstone • A day in the life of Jane Street's unsuccessful younger brother, Sesame • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter • End of semester reflection: That O-week situationship was a really good idea • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • Student trains for Olympic speedwalking by signing up for class in Mellon Institute • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • College of Engineering to drop ethics requirements from core to better align with industry standard • Bechdel Test added to autograder • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • Tragedy kills $400,000 worth of tuition • Breaking: Worst man you know is about to dangle mistletoe over his head • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale • Campus activist group disappointed after navigating bureaucratic hurdles to register protest only for less than 25 people to show up • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • You think you're a leftist? I'm wearing Che Guevara! • C@CMU: CMU's cultural touchstone • A day in the life of Jane Street's unsuccessful younger brother, Sesame. • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter. • End of semester reflection: That O-week situationship was a really good idea. • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • Student trains for Olympic speedwalking by signing up for class in Mellon Institute • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • College of Engineering to drop ethics requirements from core to better align with industry standard. • Bechdel Test added to autograder. • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • Tragedy kills $400,000 worth of tuition. • Breaking: Worst man you know is about to dangle mistletoe over his head • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale. • Campus activist group disappointed after navigating bureaucratic hurdles to register protest only for less than 25 people to show up. • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • You think you're a leftist? I'm wearing Che Guevara!