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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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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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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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A Very Readme Christmas

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

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A Message about the Fence and Discourse at CMU

Yesterday, Carnegie Mellon University hosted a demonstration of kinetic and potential energy from an as-yet unknown artist. This event was witnessed by two Walking to the Sky statues who considered it a spectacle to behold and by several attendees who called it “brief but memorable,” remarking on how the cacophonous …

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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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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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The Bill of Commandments

Everyone can agree that America is currently in a time of crisis. People refuse to help their neighbors simply because they posted a questionable take on the town Facebook page. Political violence runs rampant — yesterday at the grocery store, a guy flicked off my “Don’t Tread On Me” …

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A screenshot of a browser search history filled with "hot fbi agents," surrounded by pictures of FBI agents and hearts. "I know you can see my search history you know how badly I need this <3"

Freshman Found Languishing from Consumption in Mudge Mansion

A freshman who shall henceforth be known as Patient X has recently contracted consumption from an unknown source. Experts suspect that Patient X lied on their consumption screening prior to move-in, but they have not yet found any evidence of such duplicity. Kept awake with chest pain at night, Patient …

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README POLLS

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A recreation of the OJ Simpson car chase image, but with a buggy and pusher instead of the white Bronco.

History's first booth

HUNT SPECIAL - Carnegie Mellon University’s springtime Carnival brings with it many beloved traditions, perhaps most recognizable of all, Booth, a weeklong mad sprint through constructing marvelously untrustworthy houses. But did you know that the roots of booth trace back to far before CMU’s founding? Back before the scientists of …

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Campus Crush? Fallen Piano Splatters Stud

Law enforcement continues to investigate the mysterious death of [insert victim name], as several witnesses who were present at the scene of the crime give reports of the incident. One witness came forward to speak to the press – Susan, the Jehovah’s Witness who was running the “Free Bible Course” …

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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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CMU Students obsessed with new beverage craze

It's everywhere: overnight, CMU seems to have been struck by a trend taking campus by storm. Once a utilitarian beverage, water has become the hottest cold drink on campus, leaving every floor slick and a line behind every water fountain.

We attempted to interview one student partaking in the …

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Students Rush to Buy Sunscreen After Registering for CMU Africa

While the majority of students at CMU register for classes at CMU’s Pittsburgh campus, every year, several students accidently register for classes in CMU-Africa’s Rwanda campus without fail. Scotty’s Market and Entropy report a sunscreen shortage as students rush to buy sunscreen after being advised to prepare for a “warmer …

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

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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Taste-testing Messiahs

Pretty often now, we'll have these bearded fucks wander into the temple telling us they're the savior we were promised. They like to wash people's feet (a little too much honestly), and go on and on about the true spirit of the holidays, until someone rich bothers to have them …

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A sketch of a bed with a crumpled-up issue of readme and a crumpled-up issue of the Tartan. The readme issue is labeled "readme does aftercare," and it's smoking a cigarette.

Do you want to hear a joke?

Hey hey, I got a joke for you, right? You’re like, reading this magazine or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the Reader, whatever. This one’s like traveling, right? Like abroad? So, you know how you’re, like, traveling? Like, tr-traveling? Haha! You know, hehe, like, there’s, you know, wo- wo- [chuckling] there’s …

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Feeding students Tartan Express tenders considered 'cruel and unusual' • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Shocking new scandal breaks as leaked report reveals Tim Walz saved puppy from drowning • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Does the third amendment let me kick out my ROTC roommate? • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Philosopher finally discovers the meaning of life, claims it's "not really all that special, honestly" • I'm not homophobic, I'm just homo-weary • CMU student skips Halloween party by dressing as Godot • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Enemy surrenders; no match for roboclub killing machines • I went back in time and fucked Isaac Newton to prevent calculus, and other shocking confessions • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is) • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Feeding students Tartan Express tenders considered 'cruel and unusual'. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Shocking new scandal breaks as leaked report reveals Tim Walz saved puppy from drowning • How to send more risqué texts to your 9th grade biology teacher • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Does the third amendment let me kick out my ROTC roommate? • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Philosopher finally discovers the meaning of life, claims it's "not really all that special, honestly" • I'm not homophobic, I'm just homo-weary. • CMU student skips Halloween party by dressing as Godot. • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Enemy surrenders; no match for roboclub killing machines. • I went back in time and fucked Isaac Newton to prevent calculus, and other shocking confessions. • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is). • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction