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My Relationship with the Ready 2 Ride Mobile App

Yeah, I know she’s unpopular.

I know you want your analog methods back. This is like the NYC Metro card all over for you, huh? Well, I don’t care. I’m in love, and I’m proud of it.

Me and the Ready 2 Ride Mobile app met on the …

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Overheard at CMU

Jan. 19

inside me, there is a wolf.... woof... woof WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK WOOF YPYIP AWOOOOOO WOOF WOOF WOOF ARHGHGHGHHGHGHG


Jan. 22

"I can get a white lie shirt with 'my cousin never jacked off a salmon on accident" on the back"

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CMU Finals rife with cheating

A nefariously novel method of cheating was discovered this finals season when exam proctors noticed a student squinting quite obviously at the back of the head of the student in front of them. At first, the proctor suspected the cheater was simply engaged in a futile attempt to see through …

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Readme Sex Survey Results

The Tartan, a scourge on all good, dishonest reporting, recently published a survey on the sexual behaviors of the student population. We could not let this stand. Since every single readme staffer is a veritable sex magnet (unlike those treehugging, literaturereading geeks at the Tartan), we decided to do our …

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Winning the War on Christmas

As we all know, Christmas is falling out of favor with the American public. “Merry Christmas” has been replaced with “Happy holidays.” Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts have replaced their Christmas-themed special cups and boxes with holiday-nonspecific red and green cups and boxes printed with tinsel patterns. Christmas movies are …

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SCANDAL AT CMU: The SECRET Behind ANSYS Hall's Weight Gain

Exclusive! The dedicated journalists of ReadMe news have been carefully following ANSYS Hall the past few weeks. As one of the youngest buildings at Carnegie Mellon, it has a lot to live up to. Completed in 2019, ANSYS is one of the hottest buildings on campus. It’s outfitted with large …

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Auntie Readme's Advice Column

The people have asked questions and I, having no knowledge about anything in my head save for a handful of terminally online references, have found it fitting for me to respond as confidently as possible. Here goes!

should i take a job at lockheed martin if they …

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Opinion: Global Warming Can't Come Soon Enough

Have you ever gone outside and thought to yourself “Wow, it’s cold”? Likely not; that was a rhetorical question. However, if you were to hazard a venture outside right now, I imagine you would think that, and that makes us compatriots.

There seems to be a popular trend spread …

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Snowman animated by rogue BME students

At 3 am on Wednesday, 12/05, a team of exhausted BME student researchers made a major leap in genetic engineering, by successfully animating a snowman. The snow creature – humanoid with rounded limbs, standing around four feet tall – is powered by the highly bioengineered carrot forming its ‘nose’. The …

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Top Secret: 2027 Chartwells Dining Concepts

This confidential document was given to us by an insider within Chartwells, the division of Compass which provides food to colleges instead of prisons. Our staff has chosen to publish it unaltered.

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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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A Letter from the Editor

As one of the most reputable sources of news on campus, readme staff took it upon themselves (with only a few threats of violence) to research one of our oldest and most favored traditions — bitching about Carnegie Mellon. While several old letters were uncovered complaining about the homework, the …

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Amid Pitt Threat, Defensive Campus Turtles to Increase in Number

As the laser cannon atop the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning nears completion, projected for the fall 2024 semester, Pitt students rejoice their opportunity to reenter the locked top floors of Cathy to zap unsuspecting CMU students. A Pitt alumn elaborated in an interview, “I always loved studying up …

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Top 10 ways to die during Carnival

1. Buggy crashes: Is this one even close? Buggy is like having kids - ­it makes no sense at all when you actually think about it. It’s highly dangerous. The preparation takes up several months of your life, and leads to uncountable sleepless nights. And yet, we can’t seem to …

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An Analysis of Spending Habits of Woke People

In the recent culture war waged by conservatives in the United States of America, a central tenet is as follows: "go woke, go broke"¹. This begets the question, is there any semblance of truth to this claim? We analyzed hundreds of years worth of financial literature as well as statistics, …

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Pierre Menard, Author of the 15-122 Final

Long before a student has even enrolled in 15-122, it is guaranteed they have already contemplated and come to dread the class. It’s encountered in rumors and Reddit threads long before a student even sets foot on campus. By the time one is ready to take it, the class has …

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A "WANTED DEAD" poster for spotted lanternflies.
A candy heart bearing the message "R U work? Because UR in my <3"

An honest review of this horrid, cursed magazine

Somehow I have found myself as an editor for Readme. You start leaving a few grammar suggestions in peoples Google Docs and all the sudden they make you an editor. Being an editor for the premier comedy, satire, and news publication sounds glamorous, but in reality it is a hell …

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A photograph of a student next to Kim Jong Un with block letters saying "study abroad at North Korea today."

Freshmen take part in Tate McRae raves in abandoned CaPS offices

If your evening strolls ever take you past E-Tower at dusk on Fridays, you may inexplicably be drawn to an ethereal siren song issuing from some secluded room on the first floor. I advise you, dear reader, to resist the temptation to investigate – for I have probed the depths …

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Readme Retraces Its Steps

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Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • Noah complains that God's 'gone woke' after Ark flooded • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030 • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Lube offered for Wean holes • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Architecture students host training camp for hunkering down at CMU • RA finds Olympic torch during room check • All of Science wrong. Oops • In stunning move, Ron DeSantis Promises to Abort Pregnant Mothers • Meteoric rise in Carnegie Mellon's name recognition: Record-breaking 3% of the population knows what CMU is, up from 1.8% in 2020 • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • Noah complains that God's 'gone woke' after Ark flooded. • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030. • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights. • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool. • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Lube offered for Wean holes. • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded. • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Architecture students host training camp for hunkering down at CMU • RA finds Olympic torch during room check • All of Science wrong. Oops. • In stunning move, Ron DeSantis Promises to Abort Pregnant Mothers • Meteoric rise in Carnegie Mellon's name recognition: Record-breaking 3% of the population knows what CMU is, up from 1.8% in 2020. • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals