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Entropy+ Dissolves

Yesterday morning, students in search of the most overpriced, mediocre sushi on campus were greeted by a bizarre sight: Entropy+ no longer exists. For the past few months, the store’s shelves had been getting progressively more messy and chaotic, culminating in this strange spectacle. The leading theory suggests that, by …

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Novel Methods of Preventing Wasteful Elevator Use at CMU

Introduction

When John Elevator first unveiled elevators at the Chicago World Fair in Des Moines IA, 1462, the technology immediately garnered worldwide adoption. Buildings could access untold verticality once the ascension of hundred-floor constructions was no longer bounded by the feeble power of human muscle and bone, but …

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Gay Target Nutcrackers find true love

T’was a dark and stormy night in the Target warehouse. It had been months since June, and all but one little gay nutcracker had found a forever home. Tears streamed down the face of the little gay nutcracker. Was he unlovable? Was he destined to be alone? Was this all …

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"Are exams fucking you over? Fuck them back!" [box of Viagra]

Overheard at CMU

Jan. 19

inside me, there is a wolf.... woof... woof WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK WOOF YPYIP AWOOOOOO WOOF WOOF WOOF ARHGHGHGHHGHGHG


Jan. 22

"I can get a white lie shirt with 'my cousin never jacked off a salmon on accident" on the back"

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The "Arrival" movie poster edited to feature spotted lanternflies.

Maggie Mo Daycare Lemonade Stands Busted

Carnegie Mellon University, humble home to a rambunctious fourteen thousand students from across the world, manages a tight ship on its campus. CMU has risen to international acclaim thanks to its remarkable near-abstinence from off-campus travel, partying, and many other plagues of state schools. This abstinence is in no small …

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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."

Three students injured in West Point cake cutting ritual, reports claim

Last Friday, the nightly dessert distribution at United States Military Academy West Point turned deadly. Jeff, the plebe assigned to cut the fruitcake, doffed his hat and removed the laminated cake-slicing template from beneath it. He brushed fresh buzzcut hairs off the template and placed it on the cake. There …

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Overheard at CMU

Person 1: "Look at these Jehovah's Witnesses proselytuting"

Person 2: "I think the correct term is 'sect work.' "


"I have a special ability, one I don't tell anyone about. I'm sort of a superhero. My power is that my card works at Chipotle on the …

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Vote Wean Hall!

With the 2024 US presidential election just weeks away, README is proud to announce that we're officially endorsing a candidate for the first time. It was a tough decision; on one side we have a candidate who did not fall out of a coconut tree, and on the other side, …

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Readme Crime Report

README is an accurate source of information which prides itself on accuracy. Safety is very important to all the staff on README and we value the lives of all our readers. However, my boss also told me to write a crime report on only the not lame crimes this week, …

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A set of six Tarot cards, with designs including "122 AIV", "Stack'd Underground food poisoning", and "abstinence."
"Please date me. I am desperate. It has been so long since I've felt the touch of a woman. None of the Hinge lesbians want me :( I am: funny, good(ish) writer, ethical, and knowledgeable on Wikipedia. I am so lonely."

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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A picture looking up at Walking to the Sky captioned "you're almost there!"
The original Star Wars movie poster with Luke and Leia's faces replaced with Farnam Jahanian's.

SCOTUS strikes down law banning academic weapons in school zones

In a landmark 54 decision, the Supreme Court struck down the Weapons-Free School Zones Act of 1990, ruling it unconstitutional and finding in favor of plaintiff Alfonso Lopez, a student previously deemed an “academic weapon.” Congress’s argument was best encapsulated by Solicitor General Days’s impassioned defense:

The unchecked proliferation …

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An image which contains the text "the Carnegie Mellon semester of humiliation" in CMU-consistent branding.

Auntie Readme's Advice Column

The people have asked questions and I, having no knowledge about anything in my head save for a handful of terminally online references, have found it fitting for me to respond as confidently as possible. Here goes!

should i take a job at lockheed martin if they …

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Scotty Dog Cheating, Martha Is Speechless!

Once again, the cheating allegations cannot escape Scotty Dog who was seen leaving Schenley Park with Clifford the Big Red Dog in photos posted to X and Reddit by Paparazzi. However it seems these allegations are not just allegations as videos were taken of Clifford kissing Scotty Dog. Scotty Dog’s …

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A great-depression-era bread line, but for mental health.
An infographic about "the power of 'yet'", which includes the following statements: "I'm not depressed...yet!", "I'm not failing...yet!", "I'm not broke...yet!", "I'm not burned out...yet!", "I'm not forever alone...yet!", "I'm not a virgin...yet!", and "I'm not a cs major...yet!"

A Modest Proposal for dealing with after hours noise

It is a melancholy object to those who walk though this great campus, when they see the streets and roads crowded with loud-mouthed hooligans. Studious learners must keep their windows boarded, and their doors shut to keep the noise from irresponsible teenagers who, as they grow up, either turn to …

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A poll of students labeled "why were you at a CMU football game?" [pie chart with the following data: "thought it was a 112 recitation" is 35.5%, "I heard chicks dig sports guys" is 4.8%, "lost" is 16.1%, "if a ball hits me I get an excused absence" is 16.1%, and "my friend is in Kiltie and begged me for two hours" is 27.4%]
i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • Person who said "Wow, that was easy" after exam stoned to death • Grand Reopening of Architect's leap in the leadup to finals week • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • REPORT: If Kamala really wanted my vote, she wouldn’t’ve made me late to class • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • Top ten reels from the five hundred that you still haven't responded to • Chartwells pilots innovative Sustenance-as-a-Service model • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • Californians Sigh in Relief as CMU Students Return to Campus • In huge improvement, only three people have gotten food poisoning by CMU dining today! • Math Department discovers non-­Euclidean space in Doherty Hall C­level • President Jahanian pledges to invade Pitt in State of the University address: "They will greet us as liberators" • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • NEW RECORD: 3 CMU students manage to have sex over Carnival, allegedly with other humans • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • REPORT: Tuition increase announced, will to be used for "absolutely nothing", admin says • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • How to tell if your lesbian is a reform rabbi (she is) • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • "Nobody's seen the drama students in a month, should we check on them?", says concerned RA • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed. • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • Person who said "Wow, that was easy" after exam stoned to death • Grand Reopening of Architect's leap in the leadup to finals week • CMU Physics rises to #1 worldwide following particle accelerator heist. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • REPORT: If Kamala really wanted my vote, she wouldn’t’ve made me late to class • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • Top ten reels from the five hundred that you still haven't responded to • Chartwells pilots innovative Sustenance-as-a-Service model. • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • Californians Sigh in Relief as CMU Students Return to Campus. • In huge improvement, only three people have gotten food poisoning by CMU dining today! • Math Department discovers non-­Euclidean space in Doherty Hall C­level • President Jahanian pledges to invade Pitt in State of the University address: "They will greet us as liberators" • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game. • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children. • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • NEW RECORD: 3 CMU students manage to have sex over Carnival, allegedly with other humans • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • REPORT: Tuition increase announced, will to be used for "absolutely nothing", admin says • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected. • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • How to tell if your lesbian is a reform rabbi (she is). • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • "Nobody's seen the drama students in a month, should we check on them?", says concerned RA • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half. • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny