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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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Derealizating

Sometimes you don’t feel like a person. Sometimes you feel like you’re asleep and the people around you are guests on a podcast you forgot to turn off. There are a lot of words for this feeling, and most of them are long words starting with D: dissociation, disassociation, depersonalization, …

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CMU Apologizes For Typo, Tuition to Increase by 37.2% Instead of 3.72

The president of Carnegie Mellon University, Farnam Jahanian, recently issued an email apologizing for a typo in a recent tuition update sent to students. The email incorrectly notified students of a 3.72% price increase in tuition. In reality, the increase was 37.2%. Jahanian’s email writer, who also ghostwrites for …

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An Analysis of CMU's "Ring-By-Spring" Culture

As a former freshman, I know that most of you are coming into CMU with one goal in mind: marriage. You may think this is a far-fetched dream, but by winter break, your peers will be proposing left and right. Enormous patches of grass on the Mall will die from …

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A picture looking up at Walking to the Sky captioned "you're almost there!"

Experiences that count (for Experiential Learning)

Mow the cut.
Grow a historically accurate Baroque garden on CFA lawn.
Find a turtle outside of WQED. Take Space Robotics's latest rover for a walk.
Go to the floor meeting your RA insists is mandatory.
Start a multi-level-marketing scheme on the block market.
Finish your homework several days before …

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"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."

Torah Review

Noah’s Ark
🔯🔯
Great ocean scenery but they put me with the only other human and he keeps looking at me weird.

Tower of Babel
🔯🔯🔯
Gribbledorf zanks flomptiously squibberwump’s jibbleflop.

Cain and Abel
🔯🔯🔯🔯
If my dad named me Cain, I’d also be pissed …

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October 29, 1929: "Block Tuesday" Leaves Freshmen Destitute

At Carnegie Mellon University, the end of the 1920s saw unprecedented financial ruin for many first-year students. The meal-block economy had crescendoed throughout the decade, with blocks selling for a whopping 50% of their original worth. Unfortunately, this lucrative exchange could not last forever. The block market imploded, wiping out …

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"How many times did you vote this election? (Sample Size: 500 students)" [a pie chart with the following data: 0–2 is 29.5%, 3–5 is 47.7%, 6–10 is 15.9%, and 11+ is 6.8%]

All my Jewish Friends say the most antisemitic things

As someone who isn’t Jewish, I have not been involved in the production of the ReadMe Passover Issue. But even if it’s not my place, I would just like to say something. And I swear, it isn’t because it’s written by Jewish people. I have nothing against the Jewish people. …

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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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A marriage certificate for README. The name is filled in using pasted bits of cut-up newspaper.

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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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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Manifest Destiny Doesn't Work in Europe

CMU students in exchange programs throughout Europe have made a shocking discovery. The great American pastime of manifesting destiny is, while not unheard of, frowned upon by most of Europe. Pioneering American students tried many popular manifest destiny strategies, but none of them seemed to work.

Manifest destiny has …

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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 Miracle Christmas Gift: Nearly-Perfect Finals

Wednesday morning, students across CMU campus awoke to an incredible email resting in their inboxes: “You’re done with finals!”

Sent from a gibberish address, the messages contained only roughly-scanned notes written on sheet paper. In large looping cursive text and taped-on Polaroids, these letters told students that their last …

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The Wheel and its affects on our children

It’s the latest craze, the vogue, a revolution, and it’s rolling off the shelves. If you’ve lived in ancient society in the last few lunar cycles, you’ve heard of it: the wheel.

The wheel has transformed our world swiftly; be it agriculture, transportation, cheese, or construction, they’ve already become …

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A Pokemon-style "Who's that buggy?" poster with an outline of a buggy.

5-Minute Crafts: ECE!

Ah, 18-100 introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering, truly a quintessential class in the Carnegie Mellon undergraduate experience. Students get to build various fun labs every week, such as building 3 bit adders, a radio, and even programming their own machine learning classification system! To be able to complete such …

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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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A word search for the word "word" filled entirely with the letter W (aside from "word" in the center).

To My 8 A.M.s:

Up! We are Up! I cheer myself to rise At the crack of seven-twenty, ‘Fore the sun has hit the skies,

On a wonderous new Monday, I’m triumphantly awake In sheer elation for the 8am that I – with no especially strong feelings – Take.

A truly magical …

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A sketch of a milkshake stand with no customers and two tipped-over milkshakes. The proprietor is crying. A sign states "National Milkshake Day, September 12th, 2001"
President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • Computer Science Department in trouble as rubber ducks go on strike • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • Gelt still more real than crypto • Tenth dentist speaks out • I met Santa Claus, she's black • In devastating blow to CMU culture, freshmen are allowed to talk to upperclassmen • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • CMU sends too many acceptance letters, Class of 2029 cancelled • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Hillman very angry to discover nobody knows which building is his • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies • Lawmakers determine abortion to be legal only when Mercury is in retrograde • Everyone still remembers that time you pulled several times on a push door. Everyone • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Sliced bread invented. Honestly, not that cool • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96 • Mom if I find the afikomen can I have my turn on the space laser • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • It's not blood libel, it's just a better skin care routine • This Article Replaces Your Bioraft Training • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded • Modern Romeo and Juliet Thwarted by Ring Camera • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game • 10 ways to avoid getting embroiled in a pedophillia scandal, #6 will shock you! • Drama students celebrate thirty second increase in free time • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • Computer Science Department in trouble as rubber ducks go on strike • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Tenth dentist speaks out • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • In devastating blow to CMU culture, freshmen are allowed to talk to upperclassmen • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • CMU sends too many acceptance letters, Class of 2029 cancelled • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • Hillman very angry to discover nobody knows which building is his • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies. • Lawmakers determine abortion to be legal only when Mercury is in retrograde • Everyone still remembers that time you pulled several times on a push door. Everyone. • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Sliced bread invented. Honestly, not that cool. • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96. • Mom if I find the afikomen can I have my turn on the space laser. • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • It's not blood libel, it's just a better skin care routine. • This Article Replaces Your Bioraft Training • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded. • Modern Romeo and Juliet Thwarted by Ring Camera • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game. • 10 ways to avoid getting embroiled in a pedophillia scandal, #6 will shock you! • Drama students celebrate thirty second increase in free time