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Readme Summer School


My Relationship with the Ready 2 Ride Mobile App

Yeah, I know she’s unpopular.

I know you want your analog methods back. This is like the NYC Metro card all over for you, huh? Well, I don’t care. I’m in love, and I’m proud of it.

Me and the Ready 2 Ride Mobile app met on the …

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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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Traffic Calming Solution

The City of Pittsburgh has released an official statement following questions about PRT’s bus route redesign, which includes retiring a bus line on Fifth Avenue and rerouting affected buses to Forbes Avenue.

“Obviously, there are concerns about safety, given the increased congestion on Forbes Avenue,” said PRT spokesperson Mr. …

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So you're on a couple waitlists

This past week CMU students were given the opportunity to register for spring semester classes. Due to over-enrollment this year some poor sops (me) were given 9:30 pm registration times. By noon, 15-122 already had a 370-person waitlist, which is fine, it’s only a pre-req to every single course I …

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README buys Farnam's Hair? Cost of CMU Leader's Locks

CMU President Farnam Jahanian with hair reminiscent of Elvis Presley's

In the days following README's bankruptcy, many questions have arisen, such as "how,” "why,” and "what's the difference between a marmot and a gopher.” The answer to at least two of these questions has recently come to light: Farnam's hair. It is still unclear why the hair of CMU's …

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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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The Best Crime Report

It’s time to expose all of the dirty little secrets of a certain satire magazine, of which there are many. Who would ever do such a terrible thing, not the reputable newspaper you are reading, nope, NOT US. Anyways, unrelated, but please send help and money to our gofundme.

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A bar graph showing the following data: 3 responses for the Tartan, 8 responses for readme, and 16 responses for "stop talking to me."
A "WANTED DEAD" poster for spotted lanternflies.

The Grass is Greyer on the Other Side

Carnegie Mellon University is a globally regarded institution. With one of the best computer science programs in the world, a booming arts scene, and plenty of ways to engage its students, it’s no wonder CMU has such a strong reputation. Not only is this school academically challenging, providing students with …

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An unsolvable word search with words like "obvious" and "skillissue."
"CIT is proud to announce...the new 'Intro to Civil Engineering' Lab Kit!" [toolbox full of wet concrete, with a shovel on top]

Andrew Carnegie had the right idea

People who know me in person may know that I am a man who wears underwear. But shopping for men's underwear feels really gay, because you have to like, look at lots of men in underwear. This is a problem, because I am very homophobic.

I considered wearing women's …

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A photograph of a mysterious individual handing a large (11×17") piece of paper which says "DOG BREEDING LICENSE" in large bold font to an "unidentified, dashing Readme staffer" in front of the bronze Scotty dog sculpture outside the Cohon University Center. The unidentified staffer is indeed quite dashing. In the photo they're wearing a Bring Me The Horizon hoodie with a readme sticker.

Readme Summer School

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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".

(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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Torah Review

Noah’s Ark
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Great ocean scenery but they put me with the only other human and he keeps looking at me weird.

Tower of Babel
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Gribbledorf zanks flomptiously squibberwump’s jibbleflop.

Cain and Abel
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If my dad named me Cain, I’d also be pissed …

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Fact Checking The Gettysburg Address

With the election season reaching its apex, I have found it necessary to untangle some of the webs of misinformation that have been weaved through underhanded political campaigns. At the forefront of this country's greatest deception is none other than the highly esteemed so-called “honest” Abe.

That’s right! If …

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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 • Optimal formations you and your friends can walk in to block sidewalks on campus! • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • "Fire!" and other things to shout during a popular movie • Rabbi hot?! • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • Topologist reveals Ferris wheel to be dodecahedron all along • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • American Study-­Abroad Program expands school shootings worldwide • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Tenth dentist speaks out • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Optimal formations you and your friends can walk in to block sidewalks on campus! • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • "Fire!" and other things to shout during a popular movie. • Rabbi hot?! • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • Topologist reveals Ferris wheel to be dodecahedron all along. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • American Study-­Abroad Program expands school shootings worldwide. • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale. • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • CMU History Dept. buys new textbooks with oddly attractive pictures of Andrew Carnegie • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Tenth dentist speaks out