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My Whirlwind Romance with the Lawnmower Bot

Dear Reader,

I’m back at Carnegie Mellon for grad school, and I have quickly noticed a new hot body roaming the Cut.

I’m sure you’ve noticed them. Sleek, shiny, not afraid of getting their hands dirty, always dressing in a provocative red. From the moment I saw them, …

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Hungry?

Are you feeling hungry? Because I sure know I am. With fall break coming up in only a few negative weeks, CMU students, faculty, and other people who eat things should be aware of the best dining options available around campus.

Doherty Hall:

Doherty is a year-round …

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NYC Renter SHOCKED by Spacious Booths

Wednesday. 2:00 PM. Pittsburgh.

It was supposed to be a fun weekend getaway, but for 28-year-old Manhattan barista and renter John Novak, even a glimpse into the festive booths at Carnival turned into an existential crisis on the state of real estate.

“It was insane. I went in …

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Optimize Your Garden With These Simple Tricks

Dearest reader, consider this inquiry: You are the sole proprietor of a home garden (a real one, not in Animal Crossing or wherever AOC makes her press releases nowadays). You own the land free and clear. You go out for mocktails every week with the two other gardeners in your …

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A skeleton in a sports car looking back at you. Neon text reads "Adios, fucker! Have a good one, friend."

Readme's production in decline due to Prohibition

The pervasive hum of the printing press putting out Readme’s weekly dreck has finally faltered. A well-meaning administrator, upon hearing the rumor the magazine runs on a 70/30 blend of grain alcohol and caffeine, initiated a campuswide effort to enforce the national ban on spirits. The goal was to improve …

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Inventor Claims AI Powered Paperclip "DIFFERENT THAN CLIPPY"

Up-and-coming Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Fence introduced his new product WOOORD (stylized all lowercase) at the famed annual SouthWestEast World Tech Conference on Tuesday. Fence presented his novel assistive technology to a room packed with world leaders and the biggest names in artificial intelligence, neural computation, and autonomous agents.

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An advertisement containing formal-looking serif text and an image of a Tartan reporter in a suit whose head has been digitally altered to appear smushed. It reads: "Are you a reader of the Tartan? No? We're not surprised! Read The Tartan if you hate: asking questions; independently verified claims; proofread work; anything other than interviews; proper kerning; ...AND MORE!" followed by a quote "After all, just because someone said it, doesn't mean it's true" (attributed to "that guy over there")

CMU Takes Position on Gates Divorce

In August of 2021, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates got a divorce after 27 years of profitable marriage. While the couples' finances have since been settled, CMU has quietly ignored a brewing custody battle over the Gates' favorite child: the Gates-Hillman Center.

While the 9-story building was conceived …

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CMU announces austerity to reduce funding woes

Amidst rising inflation costs and increasing building maintenance fees, Carnegie Mellon University administration voted to implement austerity measures as a cost-cutting measure.

The English department will be entirely destroyed, as there are only 4 English majors anyways, and all social sciences will have budgets slashed in half, and the …

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A flowchart to determine if readme likes you back. Both outcomes are yes.
An illustration of a phillips-head screw driving a car.
A poem called "why the long face?" next to an incredibly stretched out picture of a man's face.

How to tell if my Hinge crush is a honeypot

Dear Reader,

I’ve been dealing with quite the conundrum and was hoping that you, an incredibly intelligent consumer of ReadMe, would be able to help me. You see, I just wanted to get laid. There are few opportunities for romantic or sexual escapades when you’re an alumnus of Carnegie …

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A poll of students labeled "why were you at a CMU football game?" [pie chart with the following data: "thought it was a 112 recitation" is 35.5%, "I heard chicks dig sports guys" is 4.8%, "lost" is 16.1%, "if a ball hits me I get an excused absence" is 16.1%, and "my friend is in Kiltie and begged me for two hours" is 27.4%]
A screenshot of a browser search history filled with "hot fbi agents," surrounded by pictures of FBI agents and hearts. "I know you can see my search history you know how badly I need this <3"

A Disease for Every Department

CFA
Architecture: Sick building syndrome
Art: Rabies Design: Mono ( type, lithic, tonous, nucleosis)
Drama: Hysterical pregnancy
Music: Tinnitus
CIT
BME: Plague
ChemE: Overdosing
CivE & EnvE: Tetanus
ECE: Herpes (both are 40% of the population)
EPP: No disease, just getting repeatedly run over by a car
MSE: …

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A "BIORAFT Certificate of Universal Completion," which recognizes completion of "Safety" and grants access to: midway without PPE, open-carrying in permit states, level four security clearance in the Pentagon, five free steam tunnel visits, access to diamond vault in Techspark casting room, and admittance to federal group chat (Signal Premium)
"Are you a small Asian woman? CMU wants YOU for buggy driving! Contact a buggy org and strap into a tin can today!"

Tax Guide for Santa's Presents

After much confusion and arrests during last year’s Christmas, the IRS has decided to release an official tax guide for any presents received from Santa. This will be a comprehensive 50-page guide listing all the various rules for how to declare these presents, factoring things like value, type, Christmas spirit, …

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A logo depicting a dragon with a black head and red jaw, which has "CMU" stamped on it in serif font.

POST-GAME REPORT: Man Murdered on Walking to the Sky

Hello everyone! Mike Rophon, ReadMe’s resident sports announcer here to bring you the rundown on the spectacular events of the past few days. Since the sports scene on campus is going through a rough patch, I’ll be bringing you the play-by-play of yesterday’s homicide.

Auntie Readme was found dead, …

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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 …

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An Analysis of Spending Habits of Woke People

In the recent culture war waged by conservatives in the United States of America, a central tenet is as follows: "go woke, go broke"¹. This begets the question, is there any semblance of truth to this claim? We analyzed hundreds of years worth of financial literature as well as statistics, …

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Readme Goes to Shul

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How to make your neighbor's crawl space feel like home

With rising house prices and global climate change, many of us are making the sensible switch to cheaper, more sustainable housing, such as the attics and crawl spaces of our former neighbors. But when you come home from a long day of gender studies, you want to relax in a …

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Student who refuses to pronounce Chinese peoples' names insists it's pronounced 'Barthhhelona' • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • Enemy surrenders; no match for roboclub killing machines • Due to overenrollment, CMU to begin holding classes in the steam tunnels • Computer Science Department in trouble as rubber ducks go on strike • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • I met Santa Claus, she's black • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Biology department recommends students engineer another pandemic for finals reprieve, extra credit offered • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Reindeer waste on Epstein Island raises concerns • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • A numbered list of my favorite types of bullet points and a bulleted list of my favorite types of numbers • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Hilbert Hotel relocated to Doherty • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • Construction of Roko's Basilisk Pegged to Begin 2026, Per OpenAI, Meta • readme too single to have Valentine's Day Edition • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected • Finding the best corner to stand in at a crowded party ­ a guide • Year 84 of nobody named Oscar winning an Oscar • C@CMU: CMU's cultural touchstone • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • Student who refuses to pronounce Chinese peoples' names insists it's pronounced 'Barthhhelona'. • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • With CMU named as "New Ivy" by Forbes, efforts underway to inflate QPAs and decrease minority enrollment • Enemy surrenders; no match for roboclub killing machines. • Due to overenrollment, CMU to begin holding classes in the steam tunnels • Computer Science Department in trouble as rubber ducks go on strike • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • CMU football wins ten consecutive Heismans, CMU students still not going to games. • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • CPS intervenes after a drunken Big Pharma beats Little Pharma • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • King Solomon Attempts to divide up twins, mother requests they're both cut in half. • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • Biology department recommends students engineer another pandemic for finals reprieve, extra credit offered • "I had no clue he was gay," Leonardo DaVinci's third apprentice twink claims. • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Reindeer waste on Epstein Island raises concerns. • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • A numbered list of my favorite types of bullet points and a bulleted list of my favorite types of numbers. • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Hilbert Hotel relocated to Doherty • CMU to sponsor 12-hour continuous drinking challenge • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • It's a Christmas Miracle! Readme disbanded. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Classic 90s songs we've all forgotten: 1. I Just Got An Abortion (And It Felt So Good) • Construction of Roko's Basilisk Pegged to Begin 2026, Per OpenAI, Meta. • readme too single to have Valentine's Day Edition • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • Student discovers 09207 TECH QUANT ANAL not quite what they expected. • Finding the best corner to stand in at a crowded party ­ a guide. • Year 84 of nobody named Oscar winning an Oscar • C@CMU: CMU's cultural touchstone • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies