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CMU Professor "Math Rizzler" Confuses Everyone with Gen Z Language

The first couple weeks of classes have finished, and rumors have begun to spread. Some complain about classes due to the volume of homework, the high weight of the exams, or the fast speed of the class. One professor, however, takes the cake for the worst rumors spread, and none …

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First ever PI-Parent conferences

Carnegie Mellon University held the world’s first ever PI – Parent conference this week, allowing principal investigators to meet one-on-one with parents of graduate students to discuss research progress, work habits, lab space conduct, social development, as well as home environment.

University officials said the initiative was introduced in …

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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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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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"How many times did you vote this election? (Sample Size: 500 students)" [a pie chart with the following data: 0–2 is 29.5%, 3–5 is 47.7%, 6–10 is 15.9%, and 11+ is 6.8%]
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A set of six Tarot cards, with designs including "122 AIV", "Stack'd Underground food poisoning", and "abstinence."

Optimize Your Garden With These Simple Tricks

Dearest reader, consider this inquiry: You are the sole proprietor of a home garden (a real one, not in Animal Crossing or wherever AOC makes her press releases nowadays). You own the land free and clear. You go out for mocktails every week with the two other gardeners in your …

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An image styled as a public service announcement stating "are you texting an UNDERCOVER COP? know the signs." It includes screenshots of three text messages: "Do you know where a fella can buy some perquisite? [sic]", "should i blow on the cartridges before i smoke them", and "Meet me by the big blue phone on Skibo"

Experiences that count (for Experiential Learning)

Mow the cut.
Grow a historically accurate Baroque garden on CFA lawn.
Find a turtle outside of WQED. Take Space Robotics's latest rover for a walk.
Go to the floor meeting your RA insists is mandatory.
Start a multi-level-marketing scheme on the block market.
Finish your homework several days before …

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My cat is an asshole

Yes, you read that right. My adorable, sweet, old-lady cat is a fucking asshole. Ever since the day we adopted her, my home has never known peace. She’s a smart asshole too. Early on, she discovered the miracle contraption known as a “window”. What did she do with this …

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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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Funny Pranks We Legally Can't Tell You To Pull During Carnival

Pulling pranks is great, just yesterday I pulled a hilarious prank where I put opioids in a guy’s beer. With Carnival leading to all kinds of people being out and about on campus, it's the perfect time for a little fun. But maybe you’re tired of the same old boring …

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Bio-Computing at CMU Promises to Revolutionize Queer Literature

“It is sacrilege that anyone graduating from Dietrich as an English major could even consider the possibility of having a stable career” – Unnamed Computational Biology researcher. With the unveiling of ChatGPT-4o early this summer, along with constant daily advancements in AI technology, artists are feeling mounting pressure as their …

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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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A candy heart bearing the message "R U work? Because UR in my <3"

Student devises innovative new method to attend early morning lectures

Early morning lecture: a macabre tragedy that befalls many a student. Some force themselves up in the morning and forge their way there. Some simply give up and sleep through it. One enterprising CMU student has managed to do both.

“I have an 8 am,” says sophomore Juan Merower. …

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Readme Responds to The Allegations

Let it become beknownst to whomstever accused our collective of various “allegations”, that they are all factually incoherent and blatantly untrue. This response will be organized in the following format — an untrue statement made by an adversary, and our rebuttal.

“Readme will be responsible for various cases of …

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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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CMU Student Senate clarifies fetal personhood policy

The Fence is a proud tradition in CMU's history, with a short and simple set of rules. One such rule is that so long as two people are "holding" the fence by staying within its encircling gravel pit, no others may lay claim to it.

This simplicity falls apart, …

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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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Gelt still more real than crypto • Linguists invent new slur for couples • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases • Garden tour: the fridge you haven't cleaned out since winter break • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Hillman very angry to discover nobody knows which building is his • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Young men increasingly feeling that having a Borat impression counts as a personality ­ Report • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • Top 10 CMU buildings I'd pick up if I were Godzilla • How to Increase your home's retail value by NOT murdering people in it • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Student trains for Olympic speedwalking by signing up for class in Mellon Institute • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • A numbered list of my favorite types of bullet points and a bulleted list of my favorite types of numbers • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • README Purchases Scottish Terrier Mascot • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • CMU rules military service ineligible for Experiential Learning • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Wave of Freshmen crashes LinkedIn in incident compared to Republican National Convention Grindr incident • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • "Sorry guys, I'm actually dead this time." Elvis, 1979 • TikTok caught selling data to Santa to determine Naughty/Nice list • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Linguists invent new slur for couples. • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases. • Garden tour: the fridge you haven't cleaned out since winter break • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Hillman very angry to discover nobody knows which building is his • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Young men increasingly feeling that having a Borat impression counts as a personality ­ Report • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists. • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • Top 10 CMU buildings I'd pick up if I were Godzilla. • How to Increase your home's retail value by NOT murdering people in it. • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • Student trains for Olympic speedwalking by signing up for class in Mellon Institute • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • A numbered list of my favorite types of bullet points and a bulleted list of my favorite types of numbers. • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • README Purchases Scottish Terrier Mascot. • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video. • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • CMU rules military service ineligible for Experiential Learning. • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Wave of Freshmen crashes LinkedIn in incident compared to Republican National Convention Grindr incident. • I'm not going to do it, but it would be SO easy to kill my roommate, several report. • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • "Sorry guys, I'm actually dead this time." Elvis, 1979. • TikTok caught selling data to Santa to determine Naughty/Nice list. • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises.