Paid for by: the illegal casino we are running on wean 9
KGB Presents: readme
Editor-in-Chief: Eshaan Joshi
All the news unfit to print!
Pitch meetings Sat 5:00 pm, DH-1211

Readme Summer School


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 …

Read more

[TODO]

Readme Crime Report

The Readme crime report isn’t just focused just on the happenings on campus, we are also well connected to the city around us! In this issue of the crime report, we at readme present to you the most serious news from Pittsburgh. This is definitely not because we ran out …

Read more

Maggie Mo Daycare Lemonade Stands Busted

Carnegie Mellon University, humble home to a rambunctious fourteen thousand students from across the world, manages a tight ship on its campus. CMU has risen to international acclaim thanks to its remarkable near-abstinence from off-campus travel, partying, and many other plagues of state schools. This abstinence is in no small …

Read more

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 …

Read more

Commonly Asked Dinner Q's

Whenever you bring home a new loved one for dinner, it’s inevitable that your parents will ask you questions about them. Bringing home your new copy of ReadMe is no different. Today we will discuss some of the questions you can anticipate will be asked of you and your new …

Read more

Overheard at CMU

Person 1: "Look at these Jehovah's Witnesses proselytuting"

Person 2: "I think the correct term is 'sect work.' "


"I have a special ability, one I don't tell anyone about. I'm sort of a superhero. My power is that my card works at Chipotle on the …

Read more

CMU's Cease and Desist to Radford University Finally Arrives After Being Lost in the USPS Pipeline for 103 Years

At the beginning of this week, a The Tartan spokesperson revealed to Readme in an exclusive interview that CMU Administration and The Tartan were planning on reviving a copyright dispute that is over a century old against Radford University. As it turns out, CMU is not the only institution with …

Read more

A diagram of a cruise ship cabin with 16 silhoettes of people packed in in various uncomfortable configurations.
A target labeled "use this square to swat bugs."
Two similar sketches of the base of Walking to the Sky with Warner Hall in the background. In one image, a crushed piano has just landed on top of what is now a splatter of blood.
A marriage certificate for README. The name is filled in using pasted bits of cut-up newspaper.
Illustrations of stick figures getting injured in various ways, with bold text reading "STOP STICKMAN ABUSE."

Everyone I date becomes lesbian

Hi, for the past two years, I have been unable to find love due to a stupid curse and I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me.

It all started a year or two ago when I had my first date. I thought it went well and …

Read more

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 …

Read more

Stop Calling Your Parents So Late At Night, You Whiny Little Bitch

It’s the middle of the night and you feel like shit. Maybe it’s 1 a.m., and you just realized there was something due at midnight. Maybe you’re being kept awake by your fifth cold in three weeks. Maybe it just hit that you actually kinda sorta miss home a little. …

Read more

An air-to-air missile with wheels and a buggy-style push bar. It's captioned "new Lockheed Martin sponsored buggy, coming soon to a civilian town near you."

15-112 Declared War Crime by Hague, CS Academy Under Investigation

Joining catastrophes in Sudan, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first 15-112 midterm has been declared a war crime by The Hague International Criminal Court.

A README reporter ventured into the wasteland that was DH 2210 last week, to document the disaster that experts are now calling …

Read more

Scotty Dog to Race at 2025 Carnival

The Carnegie Association of Networking and Involvement in Necessary Expenditures is proud to announce that their 2025 buggy driver will be none other than our beloved mascot, Scotty the Scotty dog. Readme spoke with a member of the Carnegie Association of Networking and Involvement in Necessary Expenditures, who chose to …

Read more

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 …

Read more

An illustration of a phillips-head screw driving a car.
A GoFundMe page to "support readme on strike," with a photo of picketing readme writers. One sign says "Eshaan owes me $20."
To meet rising demand, U.S. Mint begins distributing the 1/100th dollar bill • Carnegie Mellon attempts to renovate mousehole in less than two years • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • SCS class names shortened to series of grunts and whistles • Wave of Freshmen crashes LinkedIn in incident compared to Republican National Convention Grindr incident • Is your polycule centralized, or peer-to-peer? Find out now! • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11 • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • King Charles III to consider castling • I have an opinion on Israel Palestine and you can too! • To meet rising demand, U.S. Mint begins distributing the 1/100th dollar bill • Carnegie Mellon attempts to renovate mousehole in less than two years • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Dealing with your CMU-bound teen: "Sorry about your MIT rejection" and other key phrases. • CS Students shocked to discover classes have names • SCS class names shortened to series of grunts and whistles • Wave of Freshmen crashes LinkedIn in incident compared to Republican National Convention Grindr incident. • Is your polycule centralized, or peer-to-peer? Find out now! • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Incoming SCS welcome packet now includes map of showers on campus • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • CMU students shocked to discover relationships exist outside of movies. • “I’ve been conducting for 17 years straight now,” says former Eurhythmics student. “I’ve seen God, and she breathes at 62 bpm” • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • Tartan slanders innocent billionaire, more at 11. • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • King Charles III to consider castling • I have an opinion on Israel Palestine and you can too!