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First ever PI-Parent conferences

Carnegie Mellon University held the world’s first ever PI – Parent conference this week, allowing principal investigators to meet one-on-one with parents of graduate students to discuss research progress, work habits, lab space conduct, social development, as well as home environment.

University officials said the initiative was introduced in …

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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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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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This Week In Bears

Crime continues to plague our CMU campus, even as we approach winter break. In this case, our loyal reporters have followed the crumb trail to a pair of menaces doing suspicious activity around campus for the past weeks.

Camper Crushers Take to Unicycles

Two bears have recently joined …

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4 Hacks to get an extension

It’s that time of year again. You got nothing done over Thanksgiving Break, and if you’re one of those California “people” that go home for the holiday, then you’ve also managed to get enough exposure to above40degree weather to reverse whatever progress you have made building up a cold tolerance. …

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So you're on a couple waitlists

This past week CMU students were given the opportunity to register for spring semester classes. Due to over-enrollment this year some poor sops (me) were given 9:30 pm registration times. By noon, 15-122 already had a 370-person waitlist, which is fine, it’s only a pre-req to every single course I …

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So-called “Platform for Free Speech” Against Freedom of Painting with Balls

It is with a heavy heart and a profound sense of betrayal that I must address a grave injustice unfolding on our campus. Not long ago, I was confronted for the innocuous act of painting The Fence with my gonads. This is nothing less than a blatant violation of the …

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ROTC caught building "stealth" booth

It seemed like a normal night at first to Scott Snuffy, an unassuming Dietrich student, until while walking home from a late-night recitation, he noticed something odd. "A wooden plank seemed to lift itself into the air, all on its own." Few believed him, until he tried recording the phenomenon …

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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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Argumentative Essay

In this course, I (along with my peers) have developed fundamental skills in argumentation—both the synthesis and analysis of argument, and its application in a modern context. In this essay, I have been asked to take a side on one of the most controversial issues in today's America, and to …

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O-Week Crime Report

Hello freshmen, welcome to the best years of your life! And to everyone else, we are so glad you didn’t drop out or quit. While you all were busy, we at readme were also busy, sniffing out crime on campus. Really getting into the dirt for this one. Interested? Read …

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A Letter from the Editor

As the premier and only newspaper on campus, readme is honored to welcome each and every single one of you to Carnegie Mellon University, four years of your life you couldn't have anywhere else. Unless, of course, you buy the all inclusive package for 20% more plus shipping, in which …

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Iliano Spills All, Denies Ties to CIA!

On November 7th, README secured an interview with one of CMU's most famed figures: Dr. Illiano Cervesato, the professor for Principles of Imperative Computing. Reproduced below are some of the most intriguing, incriminating, and downright intransient questions and answers we got from this unprecedented collaboration.

Your class is infamous …

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Before Baker and Porter, they were Hunter and Gatherer

Baker Hall and Porter Hall: We all know them, love them, get lost in them, and indulge in erotic fanfiction of them from time to time. “But what you may not know is their deep and rich history of cultural evolution,” says anthropologist X. Cavator.

“It’s easy to look …

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Stop asking where I'm from

So I've just met you. Maybe we're standing in line for La Prima. Or we’re next to each other in recitation. Anyways, we're chatting casually. Name, year, major, and then you drop the question: "Where are you from?"

I'm sure you thought it was oh-so harmless. Just small talk. …

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Love Letters To README

Dear Beloved Reader, Periodically I find myself thinking of you. My horoscopes tell me our stars align. ~ Yours truly, Readme

Dearest Readme, Today I was particularly drawn to your comics section. I have to say, you’re my type(face). ~ Eternally yours, Reader

My Darling Reader, No pressure …

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Dying CMU students will now take "Finals"

On Friday, Warner Hall announced a policy of "Finals" (with a capital "F"), much to the confusion of the student body. While the specifics of the plan have yet to be shared, administration has made concepts of it clear: all CMU students who die during the fall and spring semesters …

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Auntie readme's Advice

After having been summarily shot for giving advice purely off of the terminally online references in my head, and having been resurrected by a joint effort of ReadMe staff and the biochemical engineering majors due to staff shortages, I am now fully embracing the magic of science and consulting with …

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Carnegie Mellon Updates Enrollment Contract, Since Nobody Reads Those Things Anyway: Here are Some of the Details

In an email sent directly to students’ spam folders, Carnegie Mellon University has announced changes to the contract signed by all students upon enrollment. “Because no one is going to read this,” Provost Jim Garrett writes in the email, “we are proud to announce that we have made some of …

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President Eisenhower warns America how fucking cool the Military Industrial Complex will be

This past Monday morning of the wonderful current year of nineteen fifty I can’t be bothered to look up the right year, President Dwight Destructenator Eisenhower stepped onto the stage at a 9 a.m. press conference and chugged from his liter of vodka as he prepared to give his most …

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Freshman Found Languishing from Consumption in Mudge Mansion

A freshman who shall henceforth be known as Patient X has recently contracted consumption from an unknown source. Experts suspect that Patient X lied on their consumption screening prior to move-in, but they have not yet found any evidence of such duplicity. Kept awake with chest pain at night, Patient …

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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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Wait, people actually read this?

Just to like confirm, people read this shit? Like, this? Like ReadMe? This ReadMe? There’s not a different ReadMe CMU satire magazine right? Just this one? Which to reiterate, people read?

I thought this magazine only existed to use up our print quota. I thought we only put this …

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Hey Shorty or Heyyy Shawty CMU Buggy vs Pickup Lines

In a few short weeks, buggy recruitment is going to get in full swing. As a warning, here are some choice phrases heard around the buggy tents that our buggy correspondent swears aren't just lame pickup lines.

“How tall are you?”

“Can you get inside?”

“Are you …

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CMU rules military service ineligible for Experiential Learning • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • Courses to begin offering bonus points for students willing to let TAs heckle them while they take the exam • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • China expresses concerns over working conditions in CFA • Finding the best corner to stand in at a crowded party ­ a guide • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • I met Santa Claus, she's black • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • SCC proposes new Booth teardown technique including ramming buggies into them • Local chapter of the KKK disappointed to see that the sun is black following total eclipse • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show • NO EXCEPTIONS. CMU to enforce dismount zones for students in wheelchairs • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • Tripping out in Roberts Engineering Hall • C@CMU: CMU's cultural touchstone • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time • New CaPS meeting locations include ledges, bridges, and intersections • Deer given proper therapy and antidepressants significantly less likely to freeze in front of cars • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • Top 10 CMU buildings I'd pick up if I were Godzilla • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • 10 ways to avoid getting embroiled in a pedophillia scandal, #6 will shock you! • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • REPORT: Carnegie Mellon students so afraid of the sun they only go outside during eclipse • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half • School of Drama declares succession from Carnegie Mellon, relocating to a place with "fewer nerds" • Drinking in Young Adult Duos Study discovers new kind of alcohol poisoning • Kanye up to something • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U • Booth chair discovers that "scissor lift violation" isn't a sex thing • CMU rules military service ineligible for Experiential Learning. • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • Courses to begin offering bonus points for students willing to let TAs heckle them while they take the exam. • CMU endorses homelessness as a viable solution to rising competition in on-campus housing • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • China expresses concerns over working conditions in CFA • Finding the best corner to stand in at a crowded party ­ a guide. • Carnival rides now include the Throngler, the Impaly­Stabber, and the Twist. • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • Administration to build new Student Academic Failure Center just for you. • Oops! All Eugenics! Student accidentally argues for eugenics during ethics class for seventeenth time this week • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • SCC proposes new Booth teardown technique including ramming buggies into them • Local chapter of the KKK disappointed to see that the sun is black following total eclipse • Report: Voices in your head usually correct, studies show. • NO EXCEPTIONS. CMU to enforce dismount zones for students in wheelchairs. • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • Tripping out in Roberts Engineering Hall • C@CMU: CMU's cultural touchstone • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time. • New CaPS meeting locations include ledges, bridges, and intersections • Deer given proper therapy and antidepressants significantly less likely to freeze in front of cars. • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • Top 10 CMU buildings I'd pick up if I were Godzilla. • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Why the liberal left wants to make the face in the electrical outlets smiley instead of frowny • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • 10 ways to avoid getting embroiled in a pedophillia scandal, #6 will shock you! • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • REPORT: Carnegie Mellon students so afraid of the sun they only go outside during eclipse • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half. • School of Drama declares succession from Carnegie Mellon, relocating to a place with "fewer nerds" • Drinking in Young Adult Duos Study discovers new kind of alcohol poisoning • Kanye up to something • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Admin continues to insist that you can't spell anything else with the letters C, M, and U. • Booth chair discovers that "scissor lift violation" isn't a sex thing