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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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School of Music to relocate practice rooms to the backrooms

PITTSBURGH, PA

As construction continues all over the lower floors of the CFA building, students have begun to wonder what exactly it is that the School of Music is building and why it's taking so long. Thankfully, their questions will soon be answered, as leaked internal messages between SoM …

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

Updates from Physics

An announcement sent out earlier this week to Carnegie Mellon University students has created widespread controversy and discourse. The email, as seen below, disclosed an important warning for all students to avoid the Gates Hillman Centre on 11/25/24.

Many on campus are worried about the potential implications of …

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A picture of Hamerschlag Hall surrounded by dense fog and tormented ghostly figures. A news headline overlay reads "Hamerschlag ghosts discover death does not grant an extension on 122 homework."

A Letter from the Editor

I was on break :)

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A word search in the wingdings emoji font.

Paleolithic tribe discovered in ancient Pittsburgh cave system

A routine safety inspection of the steam tunnels beneath Carnegie Mellon University went awry when an unexpected wall collapse revealed the heart of a still living ancient empire. When FMS workers attempted to survey the oldest section of CMU’s steam tunnels last Sunday, they accidentally triggered a minor sinkhole. The …

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An Indiana Jones movie poster for a film entitled "Indiana Jones and the Collapsing Market," with the subtitle "dead men make no sales."
An unsolvable word search with words like "obvious" and "skillissue."
A hiring ad for Dr. Et al's lab, for the following projects: rice frying without shrimp assistance, what happens if you drink liquid nitrogen?, investigation of the application of dirt as a culinary seasoning, linguisitic analysis of "skibidi Ohio Rizz", and correlating cute pitbull names with their likeliness to main children. If interested, it says to contact by carrier pigeon at "cooo cooo coooooo, coooo, cooo cooo."
The original Star Wars movie poster with Luke and Leia's faces replaced with Farnam Jahanian's.
An ad for an "AI-Enhanced paperclip" using "GPT-5א" at an MSRP of $350/month. The image is just Clippy with the OpenAI logo pasted over it.

On buying a minifridge

Are you considering buying a minifridge for your dorm? A miniature refrigerator can be a great addition to your dormitory room. You can use it to keep leftover dining hall food fresh, keep beverages chilled, and so much more! Having your very own minifridge is sure to make you one …

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A screenshot of a Gmail inbox with 8 form submission receipts with the subject "cmu missed connections <3", with times between 3 and 4 AM.
A chess board in the starting position captioned "Puzzle 1: mate in 34."

Santa Claus sues NORAD Santa Tracker over privacy concerns

Late Wednesday, Claus threatened legal action against Norad – North American Aerospace Defense Command – and “organizations who supported harm to my family.” Claus said a stalker followed and blocked a sleigh carrying his favorite elf “Lil Pimmpin,” in the North Pole, thinking the occupant was him. The assailant climbed …

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An illustration of a phillips-head screw driving a car.
A skeleton in a sports car looking back at you. Neon text reads "Adios, fucker! Have a good one, friend."
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."
Cobalt-60 rods labeled "drop and run", with radiation artifacts on the image.
I met Santa Claus, she's black • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video • China expresses concerns over working conditions in CFA • Physics department studies aerodynamics of unpopular physics professor • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • End of semester refelction: That O-week situationship was a really good idea • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Farnam Jahanian declared President for Life by Board of Trustees, immediately begins purges • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed • How to Increase your home's retail value by NOT murdering people in it • Reviewing Cathleen, Adam, their real estate business, their “bless this mess” wooden sign, and their three sons Craig, Creg, and Craigë • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • NO EXCEPTIONS. CMU to enforce dismount zones for students in wheelchairs • Pennsylvania state law deems any number greater than 100 “frankly too many” • A numbered list of my favorite types of bullet points and a bulleted list of my favorite types of numbers • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • CMU Qatar Campus sees record low numbers of students celebrating July 4th • School of Drama declares succession from Carnegie Mellon, relocating to a place with "fewer nerds" • 98­304 "How to get through red tape" StuCo finally confirmed after years long bureaucratic battle with CMU • Rope and stool salesmen loitering outside particularly difficult finals • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • "Surely the middle eastern conflict will not get worse" says increasingly nervous man for 100th time today • Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • World Peace finally achieved after man starts Israel­-Palestine argument in comments of a cat video. • China expresses concerns over working conditions in CFA • Physics department studies aerodynamics of unpopular physics professor • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • End of semester refelction: That O-week situationship was a really good idea. • They may take our lives, but they'll NEVER take our US NEWS rankings! • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Farnam Jahanian declared President for Life by Board of Trustees, immediately begins purges • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed. • How to Increase your home's retail value by NOT murdering people in it. • Reviewing Cathleen, Adam, their real estate business, their “bless this mess” wooden sign, and their three sons Craig, Creg, and Craigë. • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • NO EXCEPTIONS. CMU to enforce dismount zones for students in wheelchairs. • Pennsylvania state law deems any number greater than 100 “frankly too many” • A numbered list of my favorite types of bullet points and a bulleted list of my favorite types of numbers. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • CMU Qatar Campus sees record low numbers of students celebrating July 4th. • School of Drama declares succession from Carnegie Mellon, relocating to a place with "fewer nerds" • 98­304 "How to get through red tape" StuCo finally confirmed after years long bureaucratic battle with CMU • Rope and stool salesmen loitering outside particularly difficult finals • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • "Surely the middle eastern conflict will not get worse" says increasingly nervous man for 100th time today • Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm. • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester.