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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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Schatz to employ math majors to make infinite waffles

Yesterday, Chartwell’s announced a surprising new strategy: It would begin hiring math majors in order to generate infinite amounts of waffles. This announcement prompted much confusion until spokesperson, Selma Nella, clarified how this works.

“We were listening in on student conversations, as one does, hoping to gauge opinions on …

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I'm a Straight White Male: Here's why SCS's Gender Imbalance is Concerning

The only thing starker than my grades is the SCS gender imbalance. Though I am a straight, white male, I feel it is my duty to speak up about this issue. It’s a problem that keeps me up at night, long after I’m finished with my evening meditation and journaling …

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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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Boeing's Accident Rate Drops 15% After Buying a Slightly More Expensive 3D Printer

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After a streak of disastrous quarters for the aerospace industry giant Boeing, a new audit reveals that their commercial airliner accident rate has fallen by approximately 15%. Internal memorandums note a new development at R&D is to thank for this success: an upgrade to the 3D printers …

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Readme Responds to The Allegations

Let it become beknownst to whomstever accused our collective of various “allegations”, that they are all factually incoherent and blatantly untrue. This response will be organized in the following format — an untrue statement made by an adversary, and our rebuttal.

“Readme will be responsible for various cases of …

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

Students Rush to Buy Sunscreen After Registering for CMU Africa

While the majority of students at CMU register for classes at CMU’s Pittsburgh campus, every year, several students accidently register for classes in CMU-Africa’s Rwanda campus without fail. Scotty’s Market and Entropy report a sunscreen shortage as students rush to buy sunscreen after being advised to prepare for a “warmer …

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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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Inside ReadMe Legal

Due to the substantial inquiries regarding the inner workings of ReadMe & Co, I have been chosen to represent the ReadMe Legal Department in disclosing the functions and responsibilities we adhere to in order to maintain ReadMe as a corporation and ensure the continued freedom of all ReadMe employees.

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CS Students to be Decimated, Roman Legion-style

Early this week, SCS students would have been informed via email that a tenth of the SCS student are to be culled, and the email would have included details on how which students are selected to be put to death. Any SCS students who have not seen such an email …

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"HELP WANTED: Looking for help moving a large shipment of 122 homework keys. Must be discrete and good at withstanding torture. Will discuss pay upon arrival."

SCC preps for Carnival

As Carnival comes nearer, SCC’s heart has been squarely in the work getting Midway ready for students, alumni, and lost geese to have a fun and safe experience. They’ve been toiling away for weeks, and here at Readme, we forgive them for their foolish tendencies, like their tardiness on literally …

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Feng Shui for ruining your life

Have you ever felt like you were doing too well in your classes? Do you wake up too well-rested? Feng Shui is an essential practice for balancing your energy, and can be easily manipulated to prevent you from reaching your full potential. With ReadMe’s expert advice, any standard three-person one-room …

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Novel Methods of Preventing Wasteful Elevator Use at CMU

Introduction

When John Elevator first unveiled elevators at the Chicago World Fair in Des Moines IA, 1462, the technology immediately garnered worldwide adoption. Buildings could access untold verticality once the ascension of hundred-floor constructions was no longer bounded by the feeble power of human muscle and bone, but …

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A color-by-number of a flag, where the entire flag is numbered 1 for red.
A photo taken with a smartphone camera at night of one of the sculptures of a person at the base of walking to the sky, with harsh front-camera selfie lighting. A Snapchat-style text overlay reads: "Nooo don't walk to the sky, your [sic] so sexy ahaha"
A marriage certificate for README. The name is filled in using pasted bits of cut-up newspaper.

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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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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One must imagine Sisyphus' Heart is in the work

The gods have commanded Carnegie Mellon students to ceaselessly start and submit assignments, only for more notifications to appear on Canvas at the end of the day. They found no crueller punishment for the students’ hubris than this dreadful, repetitive task. There are many varying accounts for why the students …

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Dear Alumni:

Dear CMU alumni,

I know that you'll often get overly cheerful letters from CMU, saying how much they love you and how cool you must be, when all they really want is your money. We at readme detest this practice. In fact, we'd like to take the opportunity to …

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A Disease for Every Department

CFA
Architecture: Sick building syndrome
Art: Rabies Design: Mono ( type, lithic, tonous, nucleosis)
Drama: Hysterical pregnancy
Music: Tinnitus
CIT
BME: Plague
ChemE: Overdosing
CivE & EnvE: Tetanus
ECE: Herpes (both are 40% of the population)
EPP: No disease, just getting repeatedly run over by a car
MSE: …

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Top 10 Tops

10. Bob Ross “Just beat the devil out of it” was NOT about the paintbrush.

9. Thom Yorke He wrote Creep.

8. Ellen She’ll abuse you just like how she abused her staff.

7. Meryl Streep Have you seen The Devil Wears Prada?

6. Michael Cera

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Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • Two women argue about twins, King Solomon demands both be cut in half • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter • CMU to sponsor "Twelve-­Hours-­Straight-­Of-­Drinking" event to get rid of stigma that we are a nerd school • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half • Tripping out in Roberts Engineering Hall • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Top 10 CMU buildings I'd pick up if I were Godzilla • Linguists invent new slur for couples • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11 • Environmentally conscious student group suggests switching to sustainable walk­by shootings • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • I met Santa Claus, she's black • Man showing off new AI model really wants you to stop asking questions about ethics • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Shocking new scandal breaks as leaked report reveals Tim Walz saved puppy from drowning • How to choose the most poetic sequence of four groups to persecute • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • Gelt still more real than crypto • Student who once contemplated an evening of self­care and early sleep now facing the consequences of shitty time management • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • Two women argue about twins, King Solomon demands both be cut in half. • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm. • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter. • CMU to sponsor "Twelve-­Hours-­Straight-­Of-­Drinking" event to get rid of stigma that we are a nerd school • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games. • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half. • Tripping out in Roberts Engineering Hall • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Top 10 CMU buildings I'd pick up if I were Godzilla. • Linguists invent new slur for couples. • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11. • Environmentally conscious student group suggests switching to sustainable walk­by shootings • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Women breaking glass ceiling suffering head lacerations • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • Man showing off new AI model really wants you to stop asking questions about ethics. • The Tartan purchased by Fox News, Sean Hannity to take over as Editor­-in­-Chief • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children. • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Shocking new scandal breaks as leaked report reveals Tim Walz saved puppy from drowning • How to choose the most poetic sequence of four groups to persecute • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Student who once contemplated an evening of self­care and early sleep now facing the consequences of shitty time management • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • We lowballed our CMU tuition on Facebook Marketplace • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M.