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CMU Professor "Math Rizzler" Confuses Everyone with Gen Z Language

The first couple weeks of classes have finished, and rumors have begun to spread. Some complain about classes due to the volume of homework, the high weight of the exams, or the fast speed of the class. One professor, however, takes the cake for the worst rumors spread, and none …

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Modern technology comes for us all

Dr. Wittol requires little introduction, though he insists on one out of modesty. Indeed, one suspects he would have no objection to being introduced twice, thrice, or even into perpetuity, provided there were brief pauses for applause. A couple’s therapist, he was a modern Cupid, winged by the arms of …

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Tales from Beyond Frick Park I: The Haunting of Gates-Hillman

No living creature can exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even lanternflies and cockroaches are supposed, by some, to dream. Gates Hillman, not sane, stood against the canyon, holding insanity within its glass-and-zinc ribcage; it had stood so for twenty years and might stand for twenty more, assuming FMS …

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Poetry Corner

Chuck Schumer’s Glasses
Chuck Schumer’s Glasses
Precariously perched
Tilted and tepid
How does he look up?
Or straight forward?
Or in any direction that isn’t at a 60 degree angle?
Left with many questions
I seek
No answers
Just Chuck

Fiddler on the Roof
Without traditions
Our …

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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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An image captioned "Scotty Game / Rules: don't look at this Scotty dog!". The image is of a Scotty dog which contains the text "Game Over."

Vote Wean Hall!

With the 2024 US presidential election just weeks away, README is proud to announce that we're officially endorsing a candidate for the first time. It was a tough decision; on one side we have a candidate who did not fall out of a coconut tree, and on the other side, …

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A DIY green card, with blanks to fill in.

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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readme introduces the BoothBuggy

It’s Carnival, and as a new organization on campus, readme has decided that we want to try engaging in all of the Carnival traditions! Of course, we are a small organization, so we weren’t sure if we were going to be able to do everything. However, as a group of …

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BREAKTHROUGH: Man Crushed by Falling Piano, Killed by Banana Peel

(CMU) - In 1945, one J. Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, and for decades thereafter the institution of physical sciences was seen for what it is: a dominant force of the universe surpassing human confines, and one of the great sciences, a real science, ethically …

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A plinko board in a voting machine box, with buckets at the bottom bearing images of Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and Vermin Supreme.

A Letter from the Editor

As you may or may not know, ReadMe has been around since the dawn of time. We’re so old, in fact, that for our first volumes we were called TellMe. We orated about the Big Bang, the age of the dinosaurs, and the evolution of humanity. Once we could write, …

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Readme Missed Connections: Wean 5

It was roughly 12:30 pm, Tuesday, October 29th, and I was en route to Wean 7500 for my Mechanics lecture. I enter through Wean La Prima and take the stairs usually, however, I saw that one of the elevators called to go up just arrived at floor 5. The elevator …

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CARNEGIE FEET PICS LEAKED

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A Very Readme Christmas

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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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An illustration of a Scotty dog pawing at the legs of someone who's just entered through a door.
An extremely detailed comic depicting a freshman (labeled "greedy freshmen") buying food while stating "yes, more food!" while a worker lebeled "overpaid worker" replies "of course! you're our FAVORITE class!". An emaciated individual in tattered clothes lies on the floor labeled "impoverished upperclassmen" is asking "won't somebody think of us?". A bald man labeled "Farnam" is taking a selfie while saying "this way, EVERYONE can take econ!"
A photograph of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit, with a cartoonish cat face edited over his head.
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"
A drawing of a catperson with glasses. It says "cat for sale / 1 dollar / comes with Anxiety / smells like homosexuality"

Jewish Space Lasers are SDC's newest buggy strategy

Last week during rolls, SDC buggy unveiled their newest buggy: Greed. The new design features a shorter body and lower ceiling, as well as a front mounted laser cannon. Upon questioning by ReadmE on what the purpose of this laser was, SDC merely responded that it was classified. However, …

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CMU Cancelled, Go Home

Well it was worth a shot. Welcome to hell, Nerds!

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OCs Accidentally Create a Cult

Friday morning students woke up to the news that regular orientation activities were shut down by CMU PD due to orientation counselors accidentally creating a cult. This decision was made in the wake of Carnegie cup’s carnage. While details are murky, efforts to relocate the fence to Wean’s roof, and …

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King Charles III to consider castling • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale • Dick King Mellon? Wasn't that was Carnegie was doing? • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Creator of Bradford pear tree amongst first to be killed on invention of time travel • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Booth Chairs and School of Drama compete to see who can violate the most labor laws • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Presumably Masturbation, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love being sexiled • Chemistry majors disappointed to learn their degree does not come with a "license to kill" • Students shocked to learn ChatGPT is a harsher grader than 98% of CMU professors • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • Architecture students host training camp for hunkering down at CMU • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • NEW RECORD: 3 CMU students manage to have sex over Carnival, allegedly with other humans • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights • The best clubs to join where you can get people to do your homework for you • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Sisyphus tired of being imagined happy, quoted: "Can one of you help me with this damn rock instead?" • I met Santa Claus, she's black • "What do you mean they don't know the difference between wet layup and prepreg?" CMU students shocked by lackluster carbon fiber fabrication knowledge of average person • English department to get $10 million to convince more people to drop out of English • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • It's not blood libel, it's just a better skin care routine • CMU student describes summer classes as "basically pregaming." • King Charles III to consider castling • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale. • Dick King Mellon? Wasn't that was Carnegie was doing? • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Creator of Bradford pear tree amongst first to be killed on invention of time travel. • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • Is that Nazi salute or is Elon Musk just happy to see me? • Buggy steroid use on raceday: an investigation • Booth Chairs and School of Drama compete to see who can violate the most labor laws • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists. • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Presumably Masturbation, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love being sexiled. • Chemistry majors disappointed to learn their degree does not come with a "license to kill" • Students shocked to learn ChatGPT is a harsher grader than 98% of CMU professors • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • Architecture students host training camp for hunkering down at CMU • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • NEW RECORD: 3 CMU students manage to have sex over Carnival, allegedly with other humans • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights. • The best clubs to join where you can get people to do your homework for you. • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • README's Scottish Terrier Passes Away • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Nets placed under Pausch Bridge to remind CMU students that suicide is always an option • Sisyphus tired of being imagined happy, quoted: "Can one of you help me with this damn rock instead?" • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • "What do you mean they don't know the difference between wet layup and prepreg?" CMU students shocked by lackluster carbon fiber fabrication knowledge of average person. • English department to get $10 million to convince more people to drop out of English • Professor suspended after CMU student argues "Proof by God" valid Concepts tool. • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • It's not blood libel, it's just a better skin care routine. • CMU student describes summer classes as "basically pregaming."