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Readme Summer School


Finals Week Sestina

As I enter the cold concrete cervix of Wean,
the gold plaque of Raymond smells my fear.
I order a coffee that’ll make me shit
out all my self loathing and lack of sleep.
I don’t think I’ve retained a thing from this class.
It might be worth risking the …

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Tepper Unveils New Hell Campus

“We fought hard to ensure our students a prime location. It’s like a stu-cation! Which is what we’re calling it when one of our students goes to Hell.”

- Dr. S. A. Tan, Office of Tepper Study Abroad Programs

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An Obama-style poster of Farnam Jahanian with a red, white, and blue image filter, with large block letters spelling "NOPE."
A coupon offering "1 Free Advice" from Grey's Wingman Service (circa 2022).

ROTC caught building "stealth" booth

It seemed like a normal night at first to Scott Snuffy, an unassuming Dietrich student, until while walking home from a late-night recitation, he noticed something odd. "A wooden plank seemed to lift itself into the air, all on its own." Few believed him, until he tried recording the phenomenon …

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CMU students begin enlisting to improve internship odds

The recent influx of pasty-faced, weak-kneed 18-21 year olds to military recruitment booths has puzzled many. But it seems the phenomenon has a simple explanation: resume building.

“Well, I got rejected from probably three hundred companies,” said one ChemE major we found doing pushups. “Lockheed Martin, Boeing, RTX, Northrop …

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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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Small European Town Actually Not At All Romantic

This past summer, Carnegie Mellon ran its annual language immersion program in Italy. For the first time, the program was held in the small Italian town of Cappuccinovecchio, right between that place you forgot from tenth grade history class and that place you forgot from eleventh grade history class. In …

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"CMU Crying Club: Wanting to learn what CMU's all about? Tired of crying alone? Has the Carnegie workload finally beaten the life out of your eyes? Join CMU Crying Club! Now partnering with Concepts for even more tears" [stick figures crying]

CMU to host the Olympic Games

JANUARY, GESLING STADIUM – After decades of Carnegie Mellon nobly hosting sporting events and their most exciting approximations thereof – Buggy races, Booth build week, and occasional football games (I was able to attend one, when I happened to walk by Gesling Stadium after the halftime show caught my ear) …

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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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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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Cruella De Vil walking through an ornate door with a large grin. She's holding a cloth bag in front of her, about as tall as she is, which is dripping through at the bottom.
An image appearing to be a screenshot of a Polymarket betting option labeled "Will that bigass construction project on Forbes/Craig be completed on time?" with a 1% projected chance of succeeding and a $500 trillion volume.
A picture looking up at Walking to the Sky captioned "you're almost there!"
A movie poster for "Real Classes Have Curves."
"CMU Graphic Design Club, sponsored by README (please join, we need artists)" / "graphic design is our passion!!!!" [lots of rainbow colors and poor-quality sketches]
A "BIORAFT Certificate of Universal Completion," which recognizes completion of "Safety" and grants access to: midway without PPE, open-carrying in permit states, level four security clearance in the Pentagon, five free steam tunnel visits, access to diamond vault in Techspark casting room, and admittance to federal group chat (Signal Premium)

Help Wanted: Password Guesses

A check made out from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to readMe Incorporated for $400,000, with a memo identifying it as being for "releasing the children unharmed" As all of you astute readers are likely aware of by this point, your favorite factual news source readMe is going through a mild financial crisis. Luckily, readMe was always aware of this possibility, and four years ago the editor stored a nest egg(courtesy of a friendly local business), just …

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A "DIY 2-player word search" on a 3x3 grid with words including XXX and OOO.

Top 10 Milkable things on campus

Thirsty? Good. You read the headline. You know what you’re here for.

Number 10: The Doherty-100 automatic water bottle filler. Mechanically speaking, positioning your receptacle under a dedicated drink-dispensing orifice qualifies as milking. Viscerally, it does not quite scratch the milking itch – but it is a worthy introduction …

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Readme Sells Out

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Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video • Armed Martial Arts Clubs' Membership Skyrockets as new policy allows students to challenge AIVs by dueling • I met Santa Claus, she's black • Grand Reopening of Architect's leap in the leadup to finals week • Physics department studies aerodynamics of unpopular physics professor • Huang was chosen to encapsulate the most important part of the CMU experience: Having AI shoved down your throat • Protein folding orgy finally gets the structure right • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists • CMU students take Pitt finals: “It’s nice to be good at something” • SCC warns that buggy drivers may find themselves behind the wheel of a large automobile, and that booth chairs may find themselves in a beautiful house • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Student’s handwriting so bad they accidentally created a cypher • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Booth Chairs and School of Drama compete to see who can violate the most labor laws • You can disassemble the military-industrial technocomplex after I get a job • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • Most breakthroughs in modern geology found to just be someone finding a cool rock on their street • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Tenth dentist speaks out • Parents devastated after conversion therapy causes teen to lose interest in computer science. • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video. • Armed Martial Arts Clubs' Membership Skyrockets as new policy allows students to challenge AIVs by dueling • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • Grand Reopening of Architect's leap in the leadup to finals week • Physics department studies aerodynamics of unpopular physics professor • Huang was chosen to encapsulate the most important part of the CMU experience: Having AI shoved down your throat. • Protein folding orgy finally gets the structure right. • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists. • CMU students take Pitt finals: “It’s nice to be good at something”. • SCC warns that buggy drivers may find themselves behind the wheel of a large automobile, and that booth chairs may find themselves in a beautiful house • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Student’s handwriting so bad they accidentally created a cypher • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Booth Chairs and School of Drama compete to see who can violate the most labor laws • You can disassemble the military-industrial technocomplex after I get a job • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • Most breakthroughs in modern geology found to just be someone finding a cool rock on their street • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Tenth dentist speaks out