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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:

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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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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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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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Readme Reviews

Readme knows you don’t have time to read books just for funsies. So we did the work for you. Enjoy these thorough, accurate, and detailed reviews of popular titles.

50 Shades of Grey: 10/10. This wonderful collection of paint samples was a great help to me when …

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Wean is Shabbat Friendly?

On Shabbat, Jews are not to parttake in physical activity, work, or use contraptions that use electricity voluntarily – which means one cannot press the buttons of an elevator. Many institutions use what are known as “shabbat elevators”, which are elevators that stop and open at every floor, such that …

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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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A modern dialectic of oppression

In our day and age, we have had the pleasure of learning about the mistakes and sins of our forefathers, and have been given the opportunity to redeem ourselves as a global civilization. In many ways, we have, with many free to practice their cultures — however as we advance …

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People who played Esther in a second grade Hebrew school play more likely to be happy, confident, and employed

Groundbreaking new research has revealed the single strongest childhood predictor of adult success in Jewish youth. Second grade students who in their Hebrew school Purim plays played Esther were found to be happier, more confident, and more employed than their less fortunate peers who played Vashti. Vashti was the Persian …

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On the origins of buggy

In modern day, it can be difficult to recollect the scrappy origins of the noble sport of Sweepstakes. Informally known as Buggy, this pastime today takes the form of small carbon fiber capsules being pushed along a set route through Schenley Park, steered by students of short stature and …

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An advertisement with a picture of a shark in a formal suit. The top reads "want your student loans to sleep with the fishes? Call 1-800-LOAN-SHARK now!". The bottom has long fine print with ridiculous terms.

Readme Investigates CMU's Newest StuCo

Silly Goose Reporting Line

Though many universities offer student-taught courses, CMU’s StuCo program is unique. It’s better. The newest offering from the StuCo program is 15-122: Principles of Imperative Computation. Over the past few months, several readme journalists have gone undercover as students and enrolled in this course. Here is our unbiased, fact …

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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."
"CMU Designs new dating app!" [Image of a white man and an asian woman (promise this is relevant) grinning and pointing to a smartphone] "JOIN NOW if you are: an incredibly attractive Asian woman OR...just a white guy"

Readme's Moderately Late Guide to Choosing your Freshman Dorm

As a freshman, freshwoman, or fresh non-binary person, part of your experience will be to live in one of CMU’s 13 premium housing options or Donner House. Without further ado, here’s Readme’s guide to everything you wish you’d known when you’d ranked your housing choices. We’d have published this article …

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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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A Very Readme Christmas

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An ad for a "march against leap year," beginning on March 1st ("no, the REAL March 1st").

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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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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Homeless Ph.D. student holds fence for record 5 years, fails quals • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • Dr. Pepper finally earns medical doctorate from American Health Association • The Pitt season 2 production leaves 3 injured, 1 dead • Tragedy kills $400,000 worth of tuition • I met Santa Claus, she's black • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is • “I'm such a freak. If anyone saw my search history I’d be on a watchlist,” says man who just looks up vanilla porn • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Due to overenrollment, CMU to begin holding classes in the steam tunnels • Carnegie Mellon Athletics unable to record result for game since nobody was in attendance • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • Gelt still more real than crypto • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Architectures, Civil Engineers meet to discuss making Carnegie Mellon infrastructure even more unfriendly • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • Broadway to begin recruiting directly from Greek Sing auditions • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • Man-Woman Interaction institute forced to extrapolate from low sample size • California fires evicted after failure to meet high rent prices • In shocking news, 112 grading party turns into a free­for­all as TAs fight for last slices of cold pizza • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies • CMU to sponsor "Twelve-­Hours-­Straight-­Of-­Drinking" event to get rid of stigma that we are a nerd school • Local hero: student finally folds laundry that has been marniating in the bin for the last week • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • Homeless Ph.D. student holds fence for record 5 years, fails quals • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • Dr. Pepper finally earns medical doctorate from American Health Association • The Pitt season 2 production leaves 3 injured, 1 dead. • Tragedy kills $400,000 worth of tuition. • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is. • “I'm such a freak. If anyone saw my search history I’d be on a watchlist,” says man who just looks up vanilla porn. • What linear algebra can teach you about your parent’s sex lives. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Due to overenrollment, CMU to begin holding classes in the steam tunnels • Carnegie Mellon Athletics unable to record result for game since nobody was in attendance • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Architectures, Civil Engineers meet to discuss making Carnegie Mellon infrastructure even more unfriendly • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children. • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • Broadway to begin recruiting directly from Greek Sing auditions • Mrs. Claus revealed to actually be Amy Schumer • Man-Woman Interaction institute forced to extrapolate from low sample size. • California fires evicted after failure to meet high rent prices • In shocking news, 112 grading party turns into a free­for­all as TAs fight for last slices of cold pizza • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games. • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies. • CMU to sponsor "Twelve-­Hours-­Straight-­Of-­Drinking" event to get rid of stigma that we are a nerd school • Local hero: student finally folds laundry that has been marniating in the bin for the last week • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations