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Why does financial aid prosper while the endowment starves?

A specter is haunting CMU. You can see it in the hazy air, smell it on the crusty Entropy sign, feel it on the shadeless Mall. It’s a modern­-day tragedy. The poor are killing our endowment.

Andrew Carnegie laid down the endowment’s first million dollars himself. From the very …

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Student Tells All: Internship at Anduril

With fall break on the horizon, it's safe to say that we've fully settled into the semester. Yet, I still get people bringing up my summer internship at Anduril. That was two whole months ago! Most often, the people who bring it up are just classmates who want to find …

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Post-Gazette shareholders introduce "flipped newspaper"

Underlying the closure of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a deeper issue than the strike itself: news just isn't profitable anymore. It's a fundamental problem with the whole industry, one gnawing away at the foundations of the most credible institutions of yesteryear. With the rise of digital platforms that put the …

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A crossword with some suspicious ingredients.

Autie README Jr.

Fridged: I need your help. I was exploring the world with my mouth (don’t judge me, sensorimotor things) when I happened upon the coolest­-looking magnet in the known universe. It was perfectly gullet­-sized, so I had no choice but to pop it in there. One thing led to another and …

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The Grass is Greyer on the Other Side

Carnegie Mellon University is a globally regarded institution. With one of the best computer science programs in the world, a booming arts scene, and plenty of ways to engage its students, it’s no wonder CMU has such a strong reputation. Not only is this school academically challenging, providing students with …

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Readme Summer School

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Some Popular Books

Where the Wild Things Are: 10/10. This mind-blowing pocket guide, published by Readme itself, assists sun-deprived, fun-deprived, perpetual studiers such as yourself in touching grass around campus. With directions to secret locations, such as “The Cut,” you’ll find yourself getting more Vitamin D this semester than ever before.

This …

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My cat is an asshole

Yes, you read that right. My adorable, sweet, old-lady cat is a fucking asshole. Ever since the day we adopted her, my home has never known peace. She’s a smart asshole too. Early on, she discovered the miracle contraption known as a “window”. What did she do with this …

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Confessions of the Fence Eater

As many of you know, I am about to be expelled from CMU for taking a bite out of the Fence. The vitriol I’ve received from faculty and alumni for this victimless crime has taken a tremendous toll on my mental health, and I would like to present my side …

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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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Pittsburgh announces cheat day for airspace laser-pointer laws

One thing we all liked to do as kids is mess around with laser-pointers. Watching cats chase around the dots, blinding our siblings, but most fun of all, aiming at airplanes! Unfortunately for our joyful childhood spirits, the very 1984 United States of America government passed a law in 2012 …

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The Tartan requests $18,000 in Student Government funding

As a part of the Tartan's continuing efforts to be recognized as a serious news publication, it has recently selected several of its staffwriters as war correspondents. The decision process took the form of an involuntary nomination process followed by randomized selection, the very same system that CMU's admissions office …

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A Very Readme Christmas

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I used to hate French People

I used to hate French people. As a young denizen of the internet, I spent time in circles that enjoyed ragging on the country and its citizens, and those sentiments festered into my own twisted anger at people I’d never even met. I jeered in history classes, bullied internet strangers, …

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Booths shut down due to OSHA violations

MIDWAY, Pittsburgh — in a chaotic scene, officials from the Pittsburgh Department of Health, Safety, and Tiny Wooden Houses have taken control of Midway following Farnham Jahanian’s decision to shut down Midway. The controversial decision was made following reports of numerous OSHA violations violated during Booth construction. The Spring Carnival …

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Students assign professors work in novel education plan

It is clear that CMU students are overwhelmed by unnecessary, unrealistic, unfathomable, unfashionable amounts of schoolwork assigned to them every day. A new policy has just entered into testing by the lab of Dr. Et Al, and has shown remarkable results in regards to student-professor relations.

This policy grants …

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Tales from Beyond Frick Park: The One and Only Journey

Mr. Vizinyos delighted in recounting his tales of yonder. Paris, he explained, was Shadyside if Walnut Street had been widened to the point of absurdity; Venice resembled the South Side Flats when flooded; Tokyo was naught but Downtown if Downtown extended forever and the PRT went everywhere, anytime; and, naturally, …

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CMU covers Cut and Mall in sand, citing "Being Outside" epidemic

In a rare stretch of good weather, Carnegie Mellon students have taken it upon themselves to spend their limited free time "touching grass." Although students largely found going outside to be enjoyable, CMU's administration identified several insidious drawbacks of the practice. As a result, the university coated the most popular …

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Help Wanted: Password Guesses

A check made out from the Make-A-Wish Foundation to readMe Incorporated for $400,000, with a memo identifying it as being for "releasing the children unharmed" As all of you astute readers are likely aware of by this point, your favorite factual news source readMe is going through a mild financial crisis. Luckily, readMe was always aware of this possibility, and four years ago the editor stored a nest egg(courtesy of a friendly local business), just …

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Readme Sells Out

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Readme Crime Report

As always, Readme has another very real crime report. Only the best for our dear loyal readers. Anyways, here are the crimes!

Student’s Mouse Problems Turns Ugly

Recently, two CMU students had been sued by the Mouse himself after selling charms and prints featuring a black anthropomorphic mouse …

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Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • “I don’t have any finals this semester, just two projects, three papers…” • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • This dumbass thinks he can repay all of our sin debt • Green Man not spotted on Cut • Protein folding orgy finally gets the structure right • REPORT: Carnegie Mellon students so afraid of the sun they only go outside during eclipse • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm • Young men increasingly feeling that having a Borat impression counts as a personality ­ Report • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • A day in the life of Jane Street's unsuccessful younger brother, Sesame • Is your polycule centralized, or peer-to-peer? Find out now! • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected • Gelt still more real than crypto • Readme: 2.5 years of slur discourse with nothing to show for it • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale • Remember to tip your TAs! • Woman with 17,000 tinder matches gets her accounted deleted, makes a grinder account instead • “I don’t have any finals this semester, just two projects, three papers…” • New show “Nothing in this room is cake please stop cutting my stuff in half” is a Netflix sensation • This dumbass thinks he can repay all of our sin debt. • Green Man not spotted on Cut. • Protein folding orgy finally gets the structure right. • REPORT: Carnegie Mellon students so afraid of the sun they only go outside during eclipse • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm. • Young men increasingly feeling that having a Borat impression counts as a personality ­ Report • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • A day in the life of Jane Street's unsuccessful younger brother, Sesame. • Is your polycule centralized, or peer-to-peer? Find out now! • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Readme: 2.5 years of slur discourse with nothing to show for it • Man I sure hope no one rejects this headline. • Greedy snake oil salesman refuses to make sale. • Remember to tip your TAs!