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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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A chess board in the starting position captioned "Puzzle 1: mate in 34."
"HELP WANTED: Looking for help moving a large shipment of 122 homework keys. Must be discrete and good at withstanding torture. Will discuss pay upon arrival."
"Escaping Samsara for engineers," an incredibly detailed hand-sketched diagram which this alt text could unfortunately not do justice to.

They will greet us as sexual liberators

The saddest day of my life has been, without question, the death of Pitt's beloved former vice chancellor Dick Cheney. On the 4-month anniversary of this somber occasion, I'd like to republish the 2003 interview another of our staffwriters had with him, which represents the purest encapsulation of his fighting …

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A Psychosocial Approach to Game-Theoretic Analysis of Rock Paper Scissors

1. Introduction

Rock paper scissors, also known as scissors paper rock, and rarely ever referred to as paper rock scissors, is a game typically played between two people, where one match of rock paper scissors (RPS) consists of both players throwing out a hand gesture at the same time after …

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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, …

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A color-by-number of a flag, where the entire flag is numbered 1 for red.

CIA Buggy Mounts Another Coup in Guatemala

A CIA buggy with a turret on top fighting in a war in Guatemala Last Monday CIA forces entered Guatemala City to launch a week-long attack on the Guatemalan government, culminating in the ousting of President Bernardo Arévalo and the instatement of an authoritarian military dictatorship. According to leaked documents found in Stever basement, the campaign was a joint operation between CIA Buggy and …

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A Solution to the “last steel factory” amount of schoolwork CMU students must do daily.

It is clear that CMU students are overwhelmed by unnecessary, unrealistic, unfathomable, unfashionable amounts of schoolwork assigned to them every day. A new policy has just entered into testing by the lab of Dr. Et Al, and has shown remarkable results in regards to student-professor relations.

This policy grants …

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A photograph of a student next to Kim Jong Un with block letters saying "study abroad at North Korea today."
An illustration of a stick figure being attacked by the Scotty dog in the CMU logo, captioned "beware feral scottie dogs."

Triamgle Mightmare

I woke up last night, sweaty from a nightmare of a different world. A different world that made me more scared than I’ve ever been before.

Sine was called sime. Cosine was called cosime. Tangent was called tamgent. In fact, all of trigonometry was called trigomometry. I feared for my …

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Small European Town Actually Not At All Romantic

This past summer, Carnegie Mellon ran its annual language immersion program in Italy. For the first time, the program was held in the small Italian town of Cappuccinovecchio, right between that place you forgot from tenth grade history class and that place you forgot from eleventh grade history class. In …

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Evolution of Hetero Sapiens

Up until the 1960s, the student body of Carnegie Mellon University consisted solely of gay men. Passionate academic rivalries and long nights in the lab together fostered a thriving homosexual population at CMU. De Fer ran out of iced coffee by 8:03 every morning, and the CMU Philharmonic played nothing …

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Silhouettes of a man with a CRT screen for a head and another man pointing guns at each other on Pausch bridge. It's captioned "explore Human-Computer Interaction at CMU."

A 213 student's guide to the subtle distinction between yaoi and bl

If you've taken one of the many Intro to Computer Systems courses (15/18-x13, or 213 for short), you've likely encountered a little thing we in the community call "bl" for short. You've probably also encountered yaoi. Some people argue these are the same thing, while others argue they're completely different, …

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

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Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again • Student with childhood autism diagnosis excitedly awaits instant personality change upon turning 18 • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Sliced bread invented. Honestly, not that cool • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • Alcohol Awareness: Have you been aware of alcohol today? • Genius CMU undergrad launches "sex­-as-­a-­service" startup • A two sentence horror story: "I walk into my Intro ML final. There is a single GPU placed at everyone's desk." • My dad got both anthrax and smallpox shots, and they didn't even protect him from the IED • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • "I hate campus dining" says student eating third Hunan meal of day • Desperate to cash in on AI craze, Catholic church to unveil Gaude • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • OpenAI launches new Abacus; Calculator sales drop dramatically • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline. • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again. • Student with childhood autism diagnosis excitedly awaits instant personality change upon turning 18. • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Sliced bread invented. Honestly, not that cool. • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • Alcohol Awareness: Have you been aware of alcohol today? • Genius CMU undergrad launches "sex­-as-­a-­service" startup. • A two sentence horror story: "I walk into my Intro ML final. There is a single GPU placed at everyone's desk." • My dad got both anthrax and smallpox shots, and they didn't even protect him from the IED • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • "I hate campus dining" says student eating third Hunan meal of day • Desperate to cash in on AI craze, Catholic church to unveil Gaude. • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • OpenAI launches new Abacus; Calculator sales drop dramatically