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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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CMU to host the Olympic Games

JANUARY, GESLING STADIUM – After decades of Carnegie Mellon nobly hosting sporting events and their most exciting approximations thereof – Buggy races, Booth build week, and occasional football games (I was able to attend one, when I happened to walk by Gesling Stadium after the halftime show caught my ear) …

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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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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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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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Carnival makes Pitt rethink CMU: 'Even lamer than we thought'

Students visiting Carnival from the University of Pittsburgh report their impressions of Carnegie Mellon have fallen, and not risen. Instead of finding CMU cool for the first time ever, students say they are disappointed by the “degree of nerdiness” and hard work that goes into Carnival.

Students at the …

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Heart not in work, striking Homestead workers declare

After weeks of refusing to stay working at the steel mill past 2 a.m., employees at Homestead Steel Works have finally gone on strike. They are protesting outside the factory, saying that working all day without a lunch break is “unethical.” Some complain they have not been home to visit …

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Glossary of Jewish Terms for the uneducated reader

Afikoman: Christians celebrating Easter wish they could be us. Oh you search for colorful eggs? Try a part of a large cracker. Your seven year old cousin will become a feral Sherlock Holmes and it will become everyone's problem.

Bar/Bat mitzvah: The service in which a 13 year old …

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Pittsburgh GrubHub Driver Diaries

Day 1:

Hello, diary! Today is my first day driving for GrubHub! To be honest, I didn’t really know what to expect, since I’m so new to the area and haven’t really spoken to anyone yet. For that reason, I wanted to stay more downtown so I’d have more …

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Taste-testing Messiahs

Pretty often now, we'll have these bearded fucks wander into the temple telling us they're the savior we were promised. They like to wash people's feet (a little too much honestly), and go on and on about the true spirit of the holidays, until someone rich bothers to have them …

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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 …

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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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"Are exams fucking you over? Fuck them back!" [box of Viagra]

CMU PhD Student Actually Born Yesterday

As college admissions become more and more competitive, so do the applications for graduate school. So competitive, in fact, that a newborn child was recently spotted being wheeled in a carriage over to their Advanced Statistical Theory II seminar.

Savants are nothing new at CMU, but one-day-old Weiss …

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Students Rush to Graduate as End of World Looms

DECEMBER 20, 2012 - While CMU students have always tried to graduate in less than 8 semesters, only the quickly approaching demise of all life on Earth could incentivize even the most burnt out underachievers to get their degree before spring. Despite astronomers’ insistence that Sagittarius A* is too far …

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Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Hallmark Movie Cityboy Exes Support Group opens doors • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Confidential: Exam answers revealed to student in Hunan noodles • Scotch 'n Soda coffin appropriated for student school spirit • Booth Teardown migrates off Midway, Maggie Mo destroyed • You can disassemble the military-industrial technocomplex after I get a job • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • Due to overenrollment, CMU to add 4 AM exam slots • GOOD NEWS! 3rd Amendment Repealed: Veteran housing crisis resolved • Worst performing suicide bomber of 2025 enters second year on job • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists • In stunning move, Ron DeSantis Promises to Abort Pregnant Mothers • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm. • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • Hallmark Movie Cityboy Exes Support Group opens doors • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Confidential: Exam answers revealed to student in Hunan noodles • Scotch 'n Soda coffin appropriated for student school spirit • Booth Teardown migrates off Midway, Maggie Mo destroyed • You can disassemble the military-industrial technocomplex after I get a job • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights. • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • Due to overenrollment, CMU to add 4 AM exam slots • GOOD NEWS! 3rd Amendment Repealed: Veteran housing crisis resolved. • Worst performing suicide bomber of 2025 enters second year on job. • Physicists to start dropping large metal balls to see if gravity still exists. • In stunning move, Ron DeSantis Promises to Abort Pregnant Mothers • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies