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Am I the bazonkle?

Yesterday, I was taking the Zoop line back to my shelter pod after returning from a short half system-cycle trip to the flubble swamp. Now if you don't know anything about the flubble swamp, it's the peak of relaxation. There is no greater feeling in the multiverse than letting its …

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Entropy+ Dissolves

Yesterday morning, students in search of the most overpriced, mediocre sushi on campus were greeted by a bizarre sight: Entropy+ no longer exists. For the past few months, the store’s shelves had been getting progressively more messy and chaotic, culminating in this strange spectacle. The leading theory suggests that, by …

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

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 …

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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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Crystals for home improvement

2025 is sure to be quite a stressful year, and Readme is here to help. With the guidance of nature’s most magical healing entities, become one with the spirits and dispel the cockroaches in your dorm. The healing crystal techniques described here have been used since the dawn of Carnegie …

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Readme Reviews

Readme knows you don’t have time to read books just for funsies. So we did the work for you. Enjoy these thorough, accurate, and detailed reviews of popular titles.

50 Shades of Grey: 10/10. This wonderful collection of paint samples was a great help to me when …

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Wait, people actually read this?

Just to like confirm, people read this shit? Like, this? Like ReadMe? This ReadMe? There’s not a different ReadMe CMU satire magazine right? Just this one? Which to reiterate, people read?

I thought this magazine only existed to use up our print quota. I thought we only put this …

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A photograph of a student next to Kim Jong Un with block letters saying "study abroad at North Korea today."

The Homosexual Conundrum

Hello, fellow queers of Carnegie. Recently I have run into an issue that we have all experienced: too much gay sex. Just last week, I received trouble from this dreadful condition. As I was sashaying though campus, I noticed a poster for blood donation. Being a kind-hearted individual, I naturally …

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Commonly Asked Dinner Q's

Whenever you bring home a new loved one for dinner, it’s inevitable that your parents will ask you questions about them. Bringing home your new copy of ReadMe is no different. Today we will discuss some of the questions you can anticipate will be asked of you and your new …

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I wrote this article while drunk

It’s 2:17 AM. I’ve stumbled my way back to my dorm from some other person’s dorm. Don’t worry, their neighbors didn’t complain. Or, at least, we couldn’t hear any complaints. There’s vomit in the trash can and trash on the floor. The trash can is also on the floor. My …

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Auntie readme's Advice

After having been summarily shot for giving advice purely off of the terminally online references in my head, and having been resurrected by a joint effort of ReadMe staff and the biochemical engineering majors due to staff shortages, I am now fully embracing the magic of science and consulting with …

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(New) Intern's Report

We have intern, Ian “Meat” Turner, here by his own free will to write an article for us. Right, Meat? intern’s note- understood

strike Has rEadme in a chokehoLd. writers comPlain about lack of financial coMpEnsation.

iT appears tHat rEadme, the reallY cool newspaper, wHo hAVE becoMe loved …

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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 …

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Getting Ready for a Date with ReadMe

Welcome back readers to another installment of ReadMe’s daily blog. Today I have an extra-special edition- join me today as we get ready for a first date! Follow along to certainly wow a beau to be!

We’re starting off with a good foundation for our morning routine: ensuring our …

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Pittsburgh announces cheat day for airspace laser-pointer laws

One thing we all liked to do as kids is mess around with laser-pointers. Watching cats chase around the dots, blinding our siblings, but most fun of all, aiming at airplanes! Unfortunately for our joyful childhood spirits, the very 1984 United States of America government passed a law in 2012 …

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Man named Enu goes into hiding after Passover seder

Although it's been nearly a year since that Seder, I am still in fear for my life. The incident started as a simple invitation. Several of my jewish friends invited me to a Passover seder. “You get four glasses of wine,” they said. “It’s like Thanksgiving with three hours of …

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Scotty Dog to Race at 2025 Carnival

The Carnegie Association of Networking and Involvement in Necessary Expenditures is proud to announce that their 2025 buggy driver will be none other than our beloved mascot, Scotty the Scotty dog. Readme spoke with a member of the Carnegie Association of Networking and Involvement in Necessary Expenditures, who chose to …

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Spring Carnival Committee found dead in office

The CMU community is in shock after the discovery on Wednesday morning that all of Spring Carnival Committee (SCC) has died. An FMS maintenance worker discovered their remains in the SCC office on the third floor of the UC, and autopsy reports state that they had likely been dead for …

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Booths shut down due to OSHA violations

MIDWAY, Pittsburgh — in a chaotic scene, officials from the Pittsburgh Department of Health, Safety, and Tiny Wooden Houses have taken control of Midway following Farnham Jahanian’s decision to shut down Midway. The controversial decision was made following reports of numerous OSHA violations violated during Booth construction. The Spring Carnival …

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One must imagine Sisyphus' Heart is in the work

The gods have commanded Carnegie Mellon students to ceaselessly start and submit assignments, only for more notifications to appear on Canvas at the end of the day. They found no crueller punishment for the students’ hubris than this dreadful, repetitive task. There are many varying accounts for why the students …

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An advertisement consisting of text superimposed on an image of Walking to the Sky taken from behind the statue of a child who looks upward. it states: "Now hiring! New vacancy open at Walking to the Sky! Call (412) 268-2323 to apply today! (*Rest in peace, cmudaddythicc)"

Campus Activity Report

Our usual crime reporter Abe James is not Jewish, so I have taken up the responsibility of reporting on recent crimes which may or may not be affecting the Jewish community at CMU. As a fill-in, I do not take this position lightly, and seek to report on only the …

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"I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • 5th year "senior" suspiciously eager to apply to be an orientation counselor • Two women argue about twins, King Solomon demands both be cut in half • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • How to choose the most poetic sequence of four groups to persecute • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Courses to begin offering bonus points for students willing to let TAs heckle them while they take the exam • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Academic Office allows you to superscore GPA and BAC during Carnival only • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • "What do you mean they don't know the difference between wet layup and prepreg?" CMU students shocked by lackluster carbon fiber fabrication knowledge of average person • This Article Replaces Your Bioraft Training • District Attorney unable to rule out murder as Buggy Alumni Association hit • QUIZ: What your opinions on the scrotal asmmetry of statues says about you! • Breaking news: student from California realizes ash falling from sky is actually snow • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • Breaking: Worst man you know is about to dangle mistletoe over his head • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • ReadMe bigger than Beatles, says Jesus • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Gelt still more real than crypto • King Charles III to consider castling • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Carnegie Mellon police to be given tank to deal with unruly freshmen • MAHA movement vows to move Stack'd off-campus to lower student obesity • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • 5th year "senior" suspiciously eager to apply to be an orientation counselor. • Two women argue about twins, King Solomon demands both be cut in half. • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • How to choose the most poetic sequence of four groups to persecute • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Courses to begin offering bonus points for students willing to let TAs heckle them while they take the exam. • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Academic Office allows you to superscore GPA and BAC during Carnival only • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • "What do you mean they don't know the difference between wet layup and prepreg?" CMU students shocked by lackluster carbon fiber fabrication knowledge of average person. • This Article Replaces Your Bioraft Training • District Attorney unable to rule out murder as Buggy Alumni Association hit. • QUIZ: What your opinions on the scrotal asmmetry of statues says about you! • Breaking news: student from California realizes ash falling from sky is actually snow • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • Breaking: Worst man you know is about to dangle mistletoe over his head • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist. • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children. • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • ReadMe bigger than Beatles, says Jesus. • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases. • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Gelt still more real than crypto. • King Charles III to consider castling • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Zeno’s Paradox Reason Why Our Sports Teams Suck • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Carnegie Mellon police to be given tank to deal with unruly freshmen. • MAHA movement vows to move Stack'd off-campus to lower student obesity