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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 …

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What is Luigi Mangione up to these days?

He's in prison.

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CARNEGIE FEET PICS LEAKED

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To My 8 A.M.s:

Up! We are Up! I cheer myself to rise At the crack of seven-twenty, ‘Fore the sun has hit the skies,

On a wonderous new Monday, I’m triumphantly awake In sheer elation for the 8am that I – with no especially strong feelings – Take.

A truly magical …

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I Saw Mommy Kissing Scotty Dog

Wow, mommy's kissing Scotty Dog
I saw mommy kissing Scotty Dog
Right beside the sweepstakes track last night
She didn't see me creep
Past the booths to have a peep
She thought that I was tucked up in my dorm room, fast asleep

Then I saw mommy tickle Scotty …

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Auntie Readme's Ten Things They Never Taught You In High School

While schools drill certain indisputable facts, such as “the moon landing was filmed at Area 51” and “Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination” into the impressionable young minds, they also peddle deceit, push conspiracy theories, and propagate outright falsehoods. Fortunately, I am here with the world’s premier …

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Boeing's Accident Rate Drops 15% After Buying a Slightly More Expensive 3D Printer

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After a streak of disastrous quarters for the aerospace industry giant Boeing, a new audit reveals that their commercial airliner accident rate has fallen by approximately 15%. Internal memorandums note a new development at R&D is to thank for this success: an upgrade to the 3D printers …

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An Editor's Guide to Crushing Students' Spirits

As an editor of this fine magazine, I spend a lot of time wading through incomprehensible drivel to guide it toward the pinnacle of our satire content: comprehensible drivel. It's a difficult job, one involving strategery and manipulation more so than artfulness or constructive collaboration. When I sit down across …

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SCC preps for Carnival

As Carnival comes nearer, SCC’s heart has been squarely in the work getting Midway ready for students, alumni, and lost geese to have a fun and safe experience. They’ve been toiling away for weeks, and here at Readme, we forgive them for their foolish tendencies, like their tardiness on literally …

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Another Night in Pittsburgh

The whispering rain splats ungracefully onto the cracked pavement. A lightning strike goes unnoticed amongst the flickering neon signs. Those outside cling tightly to their overcoats and rain hats, unable to fully face the despairing night. A Pittsburgh university. A piano. A tragedy. I sit in my malaise, staring at …

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Readme Rejected

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EADME CIME EPOT

We have so much debt. As such, I have to use a typewite that’s missing a few keys. How will this cut costs and pay off the debt? No idea.

Phishing Scam A massive phishing scam was sent out by a compomised student oganization to 960 and 100 students …

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A MadLibs in which you write your own readme review.

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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Anti-sex beds "not needed" for CMU Olympics

With the recent decision to move the Olympics to Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, many are asking questions about how CMU plans to prevent the infamous athlete orgies that occur during the games.

In the past, the International Olympic Committee has seen fit to implement cardboard beds that break …

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October 29, 1929: "Block Tuesday" Leaves Freshmen Destitute

At Carnegie Mellon University, the end of the 1920s saw unprecedented financial ruin for many first-year students. The meal-block economy had crescendoed throughout the decade, with blocks selling for a whopping 50% of their original worth. Unfortunately, this lucrative exchange could not last forever. The block market imploded, wiping out …

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Readme Election Corner (2024)

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA - Tempers ran high at Monday’s Readme Pitch meeting as the topic of the November 5th, 2024 North Dakota gubernatorial election was brought up once again. Chairs were thrown, walls were punched, and several friendships ended in emotionally devastating ways after the names of past …

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Fence demolished in zoning dispute

An unknown, century-long zoning conflict between Carnegie Mellon and the city of Pittsburgh has recently come to light in a particularly destructive way: the Fence, a CMU tradition harking back to the early days of the university, is to be demolished next Wednesday.

On November 31, 2023, municipal …

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Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • CMU to finally address mental health crisis by installing slightly softer chairs in GHC • "Readme more popular than the Beatles", Jesus claims • OPINION: Are Icebreakers hazing? • CMU student describes summer classes as "basically pregaming." • RA finds Olympic torch during room check • I met Santa Claus, she's black • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • President Farnam spotted frequenting Carnival Parties • Heroic free-speech advocates oppressed by socially ostracized and clearly neurodivergent nerds • Feeding students Tartan Express tenders considered 'cruel and unusual' • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • First-year on r/cmu congratulated for having a "pretty fire schedule." • How to Increase your home's retail value by NOT murdering people in it • You can disassemble the military-industrial technocomplex after I get a job • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Gallo determined responsible for mudslide in rock climbing gym. • Hero cop reads corpse Miranda rights. • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • CMU to finally address mental health crisis by installing slightly softer chairs in GHC. • "Readme more popular than the Beatles", Jesus claims • OPINION: Are Icebreakers hazing? • CMU student describes summer classes as "basically pregaming." • RA finds Olympic torch during room check • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Mudge Koi Fish never returned new sushi place set to open on Morewood Ave • President Farnam spotted frequenting Carnival Parties • Heroic free-speech advocates oppressed by socially ostracized and clearly neurodivergent nerds. • Feeding students Tartan Express tenders considered 'cruel and unusual'. • CIT student's "new kicks" deemed "too swag" by the administration • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • First-year on r/cmu congratulated for having a "pretty fire schedule." • How to Increase your home's retail value by NOT murdering people in it. • You can disassemble the military-industrial technocomplex after I get a job