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Readme Gets Absurd


Derealizating

Sometimes you don’t feel like a person. Sometimes you feel like you’re asleep and the people around you are guests on a podcast you forgot to turn off. There are a lot of words for this feeling, and most of them are long words starting with D: dissociation, disassociation, depersonalization, …

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My Whirlwind Romance with the Lawnmower Bot

Dear Reader,

I’m back at Carnegie Mellon for grad school, and I have quickly noticed a new hot body roaming the Cut.

I’m sure you’ve noticed them. Sleek, shiny, not afraid of getting their hands dirty, always dressing in a provocative red. From the moment I saw them, …

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"CMU Graphic Design Club, sponsored by README (please join, we need artists)" / "graphic design is our passion!!!!" [lots of rainbow colors and poor-quality sketches]

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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A skech of an old-school camera being filmed with a smartphone, labeled "film camera".

CMU Computer Science has gone WOKE!

Imagine that you’re a new student at Carnegie Mellon University, and it’s your first day on campus. It has long been your dream to graduate from CMU’s prestigious School of Computer Science, and today marks the first step of realizing that ambition. You walk into Gates and look around with …

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An Obama-style poster of Farnam Jahanian with a red, white, and blue image filter, with large block letters spelling "NOPE."
An illustration of a phillips-head screw driving a car.

The Scramble for Element 119: The Race Continues

The quest to discover new superheavy elements has in the past been analogized to a race. Since the discovery of berkelium, in 1946, scientists from various laboratories around the world have competed, and at times collaborated, to discover new elements, leading to a string of discoveries of element 97 up …

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"The reality of being a safety icon: documenting the lives of those who save ours. In theaters April 1st." [many illustrations of stickmen getting drunk, snorting substances, stumbling around, and so on]
"Escaping Samsara for engineers," an incredibly detailed hand-sketched diagram which this alt text could unfortunately not do justice to.
[TODO]
A flowchart to determine if readme likes you back. Both outcomes are yes.
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.
A word search, but the words are all censored.
A word search which, when completed, appears strangely similar to a certain four-panel comic.
A set of four fake CMU missed connections: "To the asianest asian who ever asianed, I'm so into you (because you're asian)", "To the guy who was walking through Doherty two weeks ago, who I will provide no further descriptors of, you're so fine",  "To the girl I've been unflinchingly staring down for the whole semester, I can't tell if you're into me or deeply terrified of me, but I think we both want the same thing [smirk emoji]", and "I wanna fuck my TA so bad"

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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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".

A letter from the Editor

It's hard to figure out what we're going to say in these first few issues. The freshmen class is so new. Unsullied with the weight of the world you'll start carrying after syllabus weeks. Hopeful for the memories and bonds you'll form in their two or three hours of free …

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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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Satire Publication Behind Attempted Robbery Last Week?

It has come to our attention that on September 19th, a ReadMe contractor was caught attempting to commit aggravated robbery for a sum of $5.00 but was thwarted due to their target's lack of cash, Zelle, or Cash App. We deeply apologize for the negative impact of this particular employee …

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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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If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • ReadMe bigger than Beatles, says Jesus • My strong opinions on the Syrian Revolution an essay • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • Alumni donations hitting record high, so please stop donating: CMU Finance reports • Academic Office allows you to superscore GPA and BAC during Carnival only • SDC buggy design leaked on War Thunder forum • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Club snipes channels are starting to become real passive aggressive • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is • Victim Escapes Samsara • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Megachurch forms PokéStop • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • Scotty Survivor participants go full Lord of the Flies. Show banned in three states and also Khazakhstan • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • Several students observed staring transfixed at Pausch Bridge's RGB lighting: "If not gaming, why gaming colored?" • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • Santa takes unannounced detour, US goes to DEFCON 2 • Due to overenrollment, CMU to add 4 AM exam slots • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Wave of Freshmen crashes LinkedIn in incident compared to Republican National Convention Grindr incident • Gelt still more real than crypto • "Sorry guys, I'm actually dead this time." Elvis, 1979 • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • Rabbi hot?! • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • ReadMe bigger than Beatles, says Jesus. • My strong opinions on the Syrian Revolution an essay. • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • Alumni donations hitting record high, so please stop donating: CMU Finance reports • Academic Office allows you to superscore GPA and BAC during Carnival only • SDC buggy design leaked on War Thunder forum. • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Club snipes channels are starting to become real passive aggressive. • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is. • Victim Escapes Samsara. • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Megachurch forms PokéStop • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • Scotty Survivor participants go full Lord of the Flies. Show banned in three states and also Khazakhstan • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases. • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • Several students observed staring transfixed at Pausch Bridge's RGB lighting: "If not gaming, why gaming colored?" • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children. • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • Santa takes unannounced detour, US goes to DEFCON 2. • Due to overenrollment, CMU to add 4 AM exam slots • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Wave of Freshmen crashes LinkedIn in incident compared to Republican National Convention Grindr incident. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • "Sorry guys, I'm actually dead this time." Elvis, 1979. • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • Rabbi hot?! • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself