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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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School of Music to relocate practice rooms to the backrooms

PITTSBURGH, PA

As construction continues all over the lower floors of the CFA building, students have begun to wonder what exactly it is that the School of Music is building and why it's taking so long. Thankfully, their questions will soon be answered, as leaked internal messages between SoM …

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A public service announcement from CMU Police stating: "Do not leave items on tables to reserve spots. Effective immediately, doing so is illegal and subject to disciplinary action. To enforce, please steal all items left unattended."

CMU To Construct New, Shittier Donner

shittier donner With the completion of the new Highmark Center for Wellness, CMU has successfully wrapped up yet another construction project. Needing a new project to collect alumni donations, CMU turns to their freshman housing. Hopeful Donner residents prayed that CMU would finally announce the destruction of Donner, however, this Monday CMU …

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Hey Shorty or Heyyy Shawty CMU Buggy vs Pickup Lines

In a few short weeks, buggy recruitment is going to get in full swing. As a warning, here are some choice phrases heard around the buggy tents that our buggy correspondent swears aren't just lame pickup lines.

“How tall are you?”

“Can you get inside?”

“Are you …

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CMU Cancelled, Go Home

Well it was worth a shot. Welcome to hell, Nerds!

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Carnegie Mellon Secedes!

A map of the borders of the newly-seceded Carnegie-Mellon Republic In 1967, an offshore platform in the North Sea was seized by a pirate radio operator. This would become the Principality of Sealand, an unrecognized micronation. Recently, CMU's administration was struck with inspiration, and decided to secede from the United States, to form its own micronation.

The sovereign state …

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A photo of a lawn absolutely covered in lawn gnomes.

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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An intensely detailed hand-sketched map of CMU, interspersed with doodles and thoughts.
"Escaping Samsara for engineers," an incredibly detailed hand-sketched diagram which this alt text could unfortunately not do justice to.

A Letter from the Editor

With Carnegie Mellon's tuition continuing to rise following the exponential function e(x) = fuck you, the amount of money that I can sink into readme is starting to dwindle. I've been trying to defraud several investors by promising good quality, funny content, but unfortunately, nobody has taken the bait yet.

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A great-depression-era bread line, but for mental health.
An ad for an "AI-Enhanced paperclip" using "GPT-5א" at an MSRP of $350/month. The image is just Clippy with the OpenAI logo pasted over it.
A comic. The first two panels show a woman sighing and looking out a window toward a silhouetted couple holding hands under an umbrella. "Will I ever find love?" the third panel questions. Panel four shows two people holding hands in chair desks, and they're texting hearts back and forth in panel five. In panels six and seven the woman reads a copy of "readme falls in love," then concluedes, "no, probably not." [I really like this comic :-) - rtosh]

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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Dinner questions for your normal human parents

  1. So, Mr. and Mrs. ___, what do you do for work?
  2. Oh, software, that's cool. And you said your wife's an artist?
  3. Oh she does? What's paper mache?
  4. Oh god holy shit oh fuck
  5. No no it's fine, there's just some culture shock …

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5-Minute Crafts: ECE!

Ah, 18-100 introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering, truly a quintessential class in the Carnegie Mellon undergraduate experience. Students get to build various fun labs every week, such as building 3 bit adders, a radio, and even programming their own machine learning classification system! To be able to complete such …

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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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CMU Takes Position on Gates Divorce

In August of 2021, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates got a divorce after 27 years of profitable marriage. While the couples' finances have since been settled, CMU has quietly ignored a brewing custody battle over the Gates' favorite child: the Gates-Hillman Center.

While the 9-story building was conceived …

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Help! I woke up naked in Rashid Auditorium! What now?

Waking up naked in Rashid: It happens to the best of us. I, personally, have had this experience at least fourteen times throughout my stay at CMU, so I put together this guide to pass on my knowledge.
Well, you’ve woken up naked in Rashid Auditorium. What do you do?

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A skeleton in a sports car looking back at you. Neon text reads "Adios, fucker! Have a good one, friend."
An unsolvable word search with words like "obvious" and "skillissue."

How to tell if my Hinge crush is a honeypot

Dear Reader,

I’ve been dealing with quite the conundrum and was hoping that you, an incredibly intelligent consumer of ReadMe, would be able to help me. You see, I just wanted to get laid. There are few opportunities for romantic or sexual escapades when you’re an alumnus of Carnegie …

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CMU Administration shocked why students are still sad, "We gave you guys a Carnival?" • Tenth dentist speaks out • Kanye up to something • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • CMU student skips Halloween party by dressing as Godot • Lube offered for Wean holes • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Carnegie Mellon administration to consider using Booths as freshman housing for 2025 • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • Excessive lead found in the food and water of JFC • First-year on r/cmu congratulated for having a "pretty fire schedule." • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • TechSpark welding class closes due to numerous math students attempting to make Klein bottles • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • King Charles III to consider castling • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • ReadMe a huge proponent of meth as children's study aid • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • Man-Woman Interaction institute forced to extrapolate from low sample size • Top ten reels from the five hundred that you still haven't responded to • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • Elves join UAW Local 1701 • In stunning move, Ron DeSantis Promises to Abort Pregnant Mothers • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is) • Reindeer waste on Epstein Island raises concerns • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • CMU Administration shocked why students are still sad, "We gave you guys a Carnival?" • Tenth dentist speaks out • Kanye up to something • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • CMU student skips Halloween party by dressing as Godot. • Lube offered for Wean holes. • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Carnegie Mellon administration to consider using Booths as freshman housing for 2025 • CMU linguistics department finishes 70 year project to translate ancient Egyptian porno • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • New fraternity party house indistinguishable from background to ISIS execution video • Excessive lead found in the food and water of JFC • First-year on r/cmu congratulated for having a "pretty fire schedule." • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • TechSpark welding class closes due to numerous math students attempting to make Klein bottles • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • King Charles III to consider castling • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected. • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • ReadMe a huge proponent of meth as children's study aid. • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • Man-Woman Interaction institute forced to extrapolate from low sample size. • Top ten reels from the five hundred that you still haven't responded to • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video. • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • Elves join UAW Local 1701. • In stunning move, Ron DeSantis Promises to Abort Pregnant Mothers • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is). • Reindeer waste on Epstein Island raises concerns. • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration