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Anti-sex beds "not needed" for CMU Olympics

With the recent decision to move the Olympics to Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, many are asking questions about how CMU plans to prevent the infamous athlete orgies that occur during the games.

In the past, the International Olympic Committee has seen fit to implement cardboard beds that break …

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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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The 'car' in Carnegie

Margaret Morrison Street is a beloved dainty throughway within the confines of Carnegie Mellon University bordered by many residence halls, such as Boss, McGill, Scobell, Welch, Henderson, as well as the biological hazard known as “Donner House”.

A safety analysis run by CMU’s highly esteemed professor Dr. Et …

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Throwing a BOO-tiful Networking Mixer

With Halloween just around the corner, underachieving slackers everywhere are throwing parties. Now, horror movies are pretty scary, but I can’t think of anything more frightening than wasting valuable time on “fun” and “leisure”. Worry not, though: there is a way to celebrate Halloween while still maximizing productivity and increasing …

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Quarantine after Pgh Connections Trip

The Office of Community Engagement and Leadership Development recently sponsored a kayaking trip on the Allegheny River for incoming freshmen. While it was overall successful (97% retention rate), some students had a bit of a scuffle with some geese while out on the water. Chaperones noted that three or four …

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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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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 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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A PSA to check the CO detectors

Yesterday, the carbon monoxide detectors started talking to me. They whispered to me, begged me to change the batteries. The carbon monoxide detectors love the batteries. I love the batteries.

I love carbon monoxide detectors. They keep the ants out of the wall. The ants want to burrow, to …

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10 Reasons readme is better than The Tartan

1) Better at news

Unlike The Tartan, which operates on the ideas that journalism should be "fair" and "unbiased", readme is the only campus news source that includes fun quips interesting comments, and other eccentricities.

2) Better words

Find me a single example of the Tartan using …

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An Open Letter to CaPS

It’s that time of year again: Finals Week. Soon, classes will end and the excitement of the end of the semester will kick in. By excitement, I mean, absolute panic. Panic about failing exams, panic about failing classes, panic about your mom’s weird boyfriend at Christmas dinner. With this exciting …

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How to make your neighbor's crawl space feel like home

With rising house prices and global climate change, many of us are making the sensible switch to cheaper, more sustainable housing, such as the attics and crawl spaces of our former neighbors. But when you come home from a long day of gender studies, you want to relax in a …

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CMU Announces New Tradition - Inverse Bungee Jumping

diagram of inverse bungee jumping As we all know, CMU has a long history of inventing new traditions, setting itself apart from all other universities in the observable universe. From buggy racing, to releasing starving Scottish Terriers after hiding students covered in peanut butter, to painting the fence, the Harvard of Appalachia has a wealth …

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The yearly CMU black market finals guide

Welcome, dear one, to the last academic guide you will ever need.

In this trying season of finals and term projects – when time is short, energy wanes, and we remain besieged by our thanksgiving-fueled, Celsius-charged gut microbiomes – conventional academics are no longer viable. This compendium, brought to …

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A Letter from the Editor

As you may or may not know, ReadMe has been around since the dawn of time. We’re so old, in fact, that for our first volumes we were called TellMe. We orated about the Big Bang, the age of the dinosaurs, and the evolution of humanity. Once we could write, …

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A chart labeled "undefined behavior in C: d10 effect" with outcomes including "your screen color inverts", "signed integer overflow now discards the overflow bits", and "you are overcome by a sense of peace and wellbeing."

Readme Retraces Its Steps

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Eshaan calls Pinkertons on striking readme staff

On September 3rd, 2024, the staff of the student-run newspaper “readme”, serving Tartans true and peer-reviewed news since 2024, decided to go on strike in an unprecedented display of resentment towards Eshaan Joshi, CEO of said newspaper. This strike happened after months of attempted negotiations with Mr. Joshi over payment, …

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How to tell if your classmates peaked in college

As CMU alumni return to their alma mater for the carnival season, one question is at the top of their minds as they see their former classmates: “Did they peak in university?”

To help out our fellow Tartans, we have created this guide on how to identify people who …

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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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Schatz to employ math majors to make infinite waffles

Yesterday, Chartwell’s announced a surprising new strategy: It would begin hiring math majors in order to generate infinite amounts of waffles. This announcement prompted much confusion until spokesperson, Selma Nella, clarified how this works.

“We were listening in on student conversations, as one does, hoping to gauge opinions on …

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SDC BUGGY NOTICE BOARD Freshmen Job Openings

SDC BUGGY Inexperienced working freshmen wanted! Inquire with us for:

STRONG SECURITY NEEDED for intellectual property protection on rolls, race mornings. Must be steadfast, relatively uncurious, good with cold. PAY MARGINAL, EXPERIENCE INVALUABLE. For full particulars see [Redacted], arrive with jacket.

TONGUE-TIED? APPLY NOW in official Deer In …

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On the Four Questions

First of all, if you’ve ever heard of the Four Questions, chag sameach. If you haven’t, be grateful you won’t have to do them when you’re forced into joining your hypothetical Jewish friends (who are all older than you, obviously) at their several-hour-long celebration of a liberation they claim they …

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I called Pitt Police to CMU

Next issue, Readme will put CMU PD’s skills to the test in a brave act of investigative journalism. But for this week, we’ve decided to set the bar by first seeing how the police department at the far larger University of Pittsburgh handles everything we have to throw at them. …

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"Surely this one will work," says student on sixth cup of coffee • Due to overenrollment, CMU to expel losing team of Carnegie Cup immediately • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • You could be sledding right now, but you're not • Yet another Tepper startup discovered to be overly complex Ponzi Scheme • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Is giving your students A's in recitation the same as liking their story and hoping they respond? • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport • My strong opinions on the Syrian Revolution an essay • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • OpenAI introduces AI-­powered rubber duck trained on millions of rubber duck responses • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030 • Genius CMU undergrad launches "sex­-as-­a-­service" startup • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • TechSpark welding class closes due to numerous math students attempting to make Klein bottles • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool • Campus activist group disappointed after navigating bureaucratic hurdles to register protest only for less than 25 people to show up • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Garden tour: the fridge you haven't cleaned out since winter break • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is) • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96 • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • RA finds Olympic torch during room check • I met Santa Claus, she's black • "What do you mean they don't know the difference between wet layup and prepreg?" CMU students shocked by lackluster carbon fiber fabrication knowledge of average person • "Surely this one will work," says student on sixth cup of coffee. • Due to overenrollment, CMU to expel losing team of Carnegie Cup immediately • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • You could be sledding right now, but you're not. • Yet another Tepper startup discovered to be overly complex Ponzi Scheme • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Is giving your students A's in recitation the same as liking their story and hoping they respond? • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport. • My strong opinions on the Syrian Revolution an essay. • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • OpenAI introduces AI-­powered rubber duck trained on millions of rubber duck responses • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030. • Genius CMU undergrad launches "sex­-as-­a-­service" startup. • Forbes Avenue crosswalk announcer elated to finally have purpose again. • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • TechSpark welding class closes due to numerous math students attempting to make Klein bottles • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights. • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool. • Campus activist group disappointed after navigating bureaucratic hurdles to register protest only for less than 25 people to show up. • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Garden tour: the fridge you haven't cleaned out since winter break • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • How to tell if your reform rabbi is a lesbian (she is). • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96. • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • RA finds Olympic torch during room check • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • "What do you mean they don't know the difference between wet layup and prepreg?" CMU students shocked by lackluster carbon fiber fabrication knowledge of average person.