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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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Warning

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Jewish Space Lasers are SDC's newest buggy strategy

Last week during rolls, SDC buggy unveiled their newest buggy: Greed. The new design features a shorter body and lower ceiling, as well as a front mounted laser cannon. Upon questioning by ReadmE on what the purpose of this laser was, SDC merely responded that it was classified. However, …

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REPORTS: CMU Nothing Like Jewish Sleepaway Camp

Freshman Ari Steinberg has spent every summer at Camp Ramah in New England since he was 9 years old, so he thought living in a traditional triple on the third floor of Mudge would be easy as alef, bet, gimel. And he was ready to survive a few weeks of …

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Spring Carnival Committee found dead in office

The CMU community is in shock after the discovery on Wednesday morning that all of Spring Carnival Committee (SCC) has died. An FMS maintenance worker discovered their remains in the SCC office on the third floor of the UC, and autopsy reports state that they had likely been dead for …

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I Was Abducted and Brought to the Mellon Institute

It was a normal Thursday night, meaning I had one tequila soda, one IPA, three tequila sodas, and a Celsius. I was walking back to my dorm from Squirrel Hill when a bright light appeared over me. All of a sudden, I found myself falling over. I assumed it was …

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Readme Retraces Its Steps

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Founder's Body Found in Doherty

Following clues left behind by various escapees of the Doherty C­-level, a Carnegie Mellon expedition discovered the corpse of school founder, Andrew Carnegie, in the recesses of the building. The Doherty Basement is one of the few remaining unexplored regions in the United States, and the Civil Engineering Department decided …

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I Hate Baker-Porter

Baker-Porter Hall is the most evil building on all of CMU’s campus. Its construction is proof of hell's existence. In order to graduate from the architecture program you have to successfully map Baker-Porter, no one’s done it yet.

Baker-Porter cannot decide if it wants to be Baker or Porter. …

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readMe Assures Public: "Writers Are Irreplaceable; AI Would Never Take Over!"

In an effort to address growing concerns over the role of artificial intelligence in journalism, readMe—a publication known for its groundbreaking reporting—has issued a heartfelt statement, firmly asserting its commitment to human writers. This comes amid speculation that the company's recent deployment of AI tools is not, I repeat, not …

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The realization that the year 2014 is in 4 hours 5 minutes 17 seconds, and its aging-related implications

In this paradigm-shifting study, we unveil the startling truth that our perception of time is seriously flawed. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the year that occurred four years ago was not 2016, but actually 2020. This conclusion was arrived at by the fact that 2024 - 4 = 2020, and not …

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Duo Push Goes Rogue

An unknown Computer Science major has been arrested after reportedly releasing a computer virus across Carnegie Mellon’s campus. The virus targets the Duo Push mobile app, causing it to be triggered whenever a CMU ID card is swiped. If authentication is not performed within sixty seconds, the virus will …

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Help! I woke up naked in Rashid Auditorium! What now?

Waking up naked in Rashid: It happens to the best of us. I, personally, have had this experience at least fourteen times throughout my stay at CMU, so I put together this guide to pass on my knowledge.
Well, you’ve woken up naked in Rashid Auditorium. What do you do?

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Silhouettes of a man with a CRT screen for a head and another man pointing guns at each other on Pausch bridge. It's captioned "explore Human-Computer Interaction at CMU."

O-Week Crime Report

Hello freshmen, welcome to the best years of your life! And to everyone else, we are so glad you didn’t drop out or quit. While you all were busy, we at readme were also busy, sniffing out crime on campus. Really getting into the dirt for this one. Interested? Read …

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SAE Lions Stolen, A Grieving Nation Mourns

A darkness has fallen over the Carnegie Mellon campus. Since we have departed for break, two of our good friends have vanished. Staples of our community have been lost. At first, I had hope that we were all being lied to, that the photos were doctored. Alas, upon returning to …

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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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SCC To Begin Enforcing Hays Code on Midway

As booth organizations begin to design their booths for the 2025 Spring Carnival, Spring Carnival Committee has announced a controversial new slate of regulations for the upcoming semester. In a press release emailed out to all booth chairs SCC required all booth designs to comply with Hollywood’s 1934 Hays Code. …

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Some Popular Books

Where the Wild Things Are: 10/10. This mind-blowing pocket guide, published by Readme itself, assists sun-deprived, fun-deprived, perpetual studiers such as yourself in touching grass around campus. With directions to secret locations, such as “The Cut,” you’ll find yourself getting more Vitamin D this semester than ever before.

This …

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The Man, The Myth, The Farnam

Hey you, did you know that Carnegie Mellon University has its very own version of Superman? A larger-than life guy so essential to campus life whether social, financial, sexual, or academic? A man so powerful he can bend steel beams with his own two hands? A man who can safely …

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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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(New) Intern's Report

We have intern, Ian “Meat” Turner, here by his own free will to write an article for us. Right, Meat? intern’s note- understood

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Hunt Library is queerbaiting us - OPINION

Hunt Library is queerbaiting us, and I won't stand for it any longer. Hunt was constructed in 1961, but it didn't have exterior lights until 2010, when people stopped gaybashing and everything went to shit. Hunt Library thinks it serves. It needs to stop trying to make Cunt Library happen. …

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Readme Through The Ages

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Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • CMU passes the Bechdel test after Margaret Morrison merger • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Unethical P-hacking in science and society: a critical analysis of the tortoise and the hare • King Charles III to consider castling • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • Gelt still more real than crypto • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Chartwells pilots innovative Sustenance-as-a-Service model • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • In devastating blow to CMU culture, freshmen are allowed to talk to upperclassmen • This dumbass thinks he can repay all of our sin debt • It's not blood libel, it's just a better skin care routine • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Homeless Ph.D. student holds fence for record 5 years, fails quals • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • “I don’t have any finals this semester, just two projects, three papers…” • Carnegie Mellon Athletics unable to record result for game since nobody was in attendance • Congress deems every white male citizen over the age of 80 honorary senator • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • CMU Suicide Club announces no returning members for Academic Year 25-26 • Breaking news: student from California realizes ash falling from sky is actually snow • Kanye up to something • Construction of Roko's Basilisk Pegged to Begin 2026, Per OpenAI, Meta • Club snipes channels are starting to become real passive aggressive • "I hate campus dining" says student eating third Hunan meal of day • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • "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 • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • "Hello foot fetish artist? Yes...I'd like to commission a meter." • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies. • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • CMU passes the Bechdel test after Margaret Morrison merger. • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Unethical P-hacking in science and society: a critical analysis of the tortoise and the hare. • King Charles III to consider castling • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Chartwells pilots innovative Sustenance-as-a-Service model. • Banana shortage has monkeys going bananas • In devastating blow to CMU culture, freshmen are allowed to talk to upperclassmen • This dumbass thinks he can repay all of our sin debt. • It's not blood libel, it's just a better skin care routine. • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Homeless Ph.D. student holds fence for record 5 years, fails quals • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • “I don’t have any finals this semester, just two projects, three papers…” • Carnegie Mellon Athletics unable to record result for game since nobody was in attendance • Congress deems every white male citizen over the age of 80 honorary senator • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • CMU Suicide Club announces no returning members for Academic Year 25-26 • Breaking news: student from California realizes ash falling from sky is actually snow • Kanye up to something • Construction of Roko's Basilisk Pegged to Begin 2026, Per OpenAI, Meta. • Club snipes channels are starting to become real passive aggressive. • "I hate campus dining" says student eating third Hunan meal of day • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • "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. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • "Hello foot fetish artist? Yes...I'd like to commission a meter." • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims.