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Hungry?

Are you feeling hungry? Because I sure know I am. With fall break coming up in only a few negative weeks, CMU students, faculty, and other people who eat things should be aware of the best dining options available around campus.

Doherty Hall:

Doherty is a year-round …

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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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Readme gets divorced

I am standing outside the Allegheny County Courthouse, where historic divorce proceedings are happening. Just moments ago, The Tartan showed up for emotional support for the reader. README does not look pleased, I wonder how this is going to play out.

10:06 AM

Readme’s lawyer has requested that …

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Inside ReadMe Legal

Due to the substantial inquiries regarding the inner workings of ReadMe & Co, I have been chosen to represent the ReadMe Legal Department in disclosing the functions and responsibilities we adhere to in order to maintain ReadMe as a corporation and ensure the continued freedom of all ReadMe employees.

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Rightward Shift in Optimal Arousal Level to Maximize Productivity

From the enclosure movement in 18th century England, the owning class has been tasked with answering how to maximize the productivity of their peons. As the modern American university becomes increasingly corporate and a profit-seeking endeavor, similar questions are now being asked by university administrators. Many things have been tried …

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A 3-panel comic. In the first panel, one person says "wanna come see a cool feature of my dorm?". Another person labeled "oblivious freshman" says "sure!". in the second panel, the first person opens a door labeled with a biohazard sign, and the freshman is shown with a confused question-mark sign. The third panel depicts a shower curtain covered in black mold. The upperclassman asks "aren't you excited for CMU housing?", to which the freshman replies "wtf".
A booth which is standing on large chicken legs.

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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The Homosexual Conundrum

Hello, fellow queers of Carnegie. Recently I have run into an issue that we have all experienced: too much gay sex. Just last week, I received trouble from this dreadful condition. As I was sashaying though campus, I noticed a poster for blood donation. Being a kind-hearted individual, I naturally …

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CMU was always a social experiment

Carnegie Mellon. You all know the name – founded in 1900 with the supposed intention of being a “technical institution” where our “hearts are in the work.” These are all lies that you have been fed by Big Behavioralism, because we know the real reason that CMU was founded.

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Student gives 75 classmates AIVs

On Tuesday, November 26th, during a midterm for 18-122 (Principles of Slightly Different Computing), a record of 75 students were given academic integrity violations within a 32 minute span. While their alleged offenses varied widely in scale and execution, they all constituted some form of unauthorized aid, traced back to …

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ReadMe Announces Launch of New Dog-Watching Ring

Are you a proud Tartan? Do you like copious amounts of violence? Have you tried to participate in dogfighting but were too concerned about the legality? Fortunately for you, earlier this week ReadMe executives failed to thoroughly read my amendments to the yearly budget and have now approved plans for …

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‘I’m good’ Not Followed By Long Contemplative Silence, Officials Investigating

February 24th, 2024, 4:46PM: In a shocking turn of events, a local student exchanging pleasantries responded “I’m good” without a long, heavy silence brimming with unsaid daily anxieties, unfulfilled ambitions and existential dread.

“They didn’t even follow the statement with a discussion about how few hours of sleep they …

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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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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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Auntie readme's Advice

After having been summarily shot for giving advice purely off of the terminally online references in my head, and having been resurrected by a joint effort of ReadMe staff and the biochemical engineering majors due to staff shortages, I am now fully embracing the magic of science and consulting with …

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I used to hate French People

I used to hate French people. As a young denizen of the internet, I spent time in circles that enjoyed ragging on the country and its citizens, and those sentiments festered into my own twisted anger at people I’d never even met. I jeered in history classes, bullied internet strangers, …

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CMU's New COUNTermeasure Against Protest

In order to properly enforce the new expressive action rule, CMU has hired the educational celebrity, The Count from Sesame Street, to count crowds on campus and make sure none exceed tvventy four. The students seem to be taking the new member of the Carnegie Mellon family vvell. “It’s a …

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Everyone I date becomes lesbian

Hi, for the past two years, I have been unable to find love due to a stupid curse and I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me.

It all started a year or two ago when I had my first date. I thought it went well and …

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Carnegie Mellon Updates Enrollment Contract, Since Nobody Reads Those Things Anyway: Here are Some of the Details

In an email sent directly to students’ spam folders, Carnegie Mellon University has announced changes to the contract signed by all students upon enrollment. “Because no one is going to read this,” Provost Jim Garrett writes in the email, “we are proud to announce that we have made some of …

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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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A comic with three captioned illustrations. In order, it reads "not to flex on anyone, but I'm Jewish, and I got into art school just fine."

Wait, people actually read this?

Just to like confirm, people read this shit? Like, this? Like ReadMe? This ReadMe? There’s not a different ReadMe CMU satire magazine right? Just this one? Which to reiterate, people read?

I thought this magazine only existed to use up our print quota. I thought we only put this …

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18-100 to introduce larger toolkits

ECE freshman carrying black and yellow tool kits is an ever-popular sight on Carnegie Mellon’s campus. Originally introduced to publicly shame people for choosing ECE as a major, the tool kits cemented their place when the head TAs for 18-100 realized they could store lab materials within the tool kits. …

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Pentagon Swears In New War Crime Scapegoat After Previous One Died

The US Department of Defense has recently concluded its emergency internal election to find a worthy successor to the previous war crime scapegoat who unexpectedly died this year. The election was hastily called because there were no contingency plans in case the last scapegoat died, as no one at the …

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Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • ReadMe a huge proponent of meth as children's study aid • King Charles III to consider castling • "1929 will be my year" ­ says man who invested all his money into Wall Street • Computer Science Department in trouble as rubber ducks go on strike • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • Broadway to begin recruiting directly from Greek Sing auditions • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • This dumbass thinks he can repay all of our sin debt • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Carnegie Mellon unveils plans to make second, shittier donner • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • CMU students take pictures of Hunt library light pollution after mistaking it for Aurora Borealis • Hallmark Movie Cityboy Exes Support Group opens doors • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline • New CaPS meeting locations include ledges, bridges, and intersections • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Drama students celebrate thirty second increase in free time • Student spends 7 hours working up the courage to make a phone call, recipient doesn't answer • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • Demolition Company breaks up married couple • Student Government shutdown looms as Senate fails to ratify budget • Rabbi hot?! • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • ReadMe a huge proponent of meth as children's study aid. • King Charles III to consider castling • "1929 will be my year" ­ says man who invested all his money into Wall Street. • Computer Science Department in trouble as rubber ducks go on strike • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed. • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • Broadway to begin recruiting directly from Greek Sing auditions • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • This dumbass thinks he can repay all of our sin debt. • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases. • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Carnegie Mellon unveils plans to make second, shittier donner • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • CMU students take pictures of Hunt library light pollution after mistaking it for Aurora Borealis • Hallmark Movie Cityboy Exes Support Group opens doors • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline. • New CaPS meeting locations include ledges, bridges, and intersections • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Drama students celebrate thirty second increase in free time • Student spends 7 hours working up the courage to make a phone call, recipient doesn't answer • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist. • Complete works of Saphho discovered in a Home Depot • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • Demolition Company breaks up married couple. • Student Government shutdown looms as Senate fails to ratify budget • Rabbi hot?!