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A Day in the Life at CMU Miami

8 AM. My alarm beeps twice. I jolt awake, panic, and swing my arm at it. Miss. Shit.

“IT’S KENNETH C. GRIFFIN O’CLOCK!” it bellows, and tinny notes soon follow. Can’t switch it off now – turning off the official Kenneth C. Griffin theme song is liable to suspension …

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Answers: Last Week’s Crossword

Across

  1. OREO

  2. UTA

  3. AIOLI

  4. ILIAD

  5. TRUE

  6. ZIGZAG

  7. ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIA­NISM

  8. IONE

  9. TERI

  10. POLO

  11. IDENTIFICATION

  12. TELL ME …

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I called Pitt Police to CMU

Next issue, Readme will put CMU PD’s skills to the test in a brave act of investigative journalism. But for this week, we’ve decided to set the bar by first seeing how the police department at the far larger University of Pittsburgh handles everything we have to throw at them. …

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Degree of CMU alum posthumously revoked after 15-122 whiteboard found in steam tunnels

Last Thursday, a trio of students attempting to raid the famed steam tunnels under Margaret Morrison Hall for treasure were caught by CMU police. While their possessions were being confiscated, however, CMUPD came across a far more disturbing secret. Dusting off the asbestos powder covering its surface, police officers were …

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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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A letter from the Editor

It's hard to figure out what we're going to say in these first few issues. The freshmen class is so new. Unsullied with the weight of the world you'll start carrying after syllabus weeks. Hopeful for the memories and bonds you'll form in their two or three hours of free …

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Finals Week Sestina

As I enter the cold concrete cervix of Wean,
the gold plaque of Raymond smells my fear.
I order a coffee that’ll make me shit
out all my self loathing and lack of sleep.
I don’t think I’ve retained a thing from this class.
It might be worth risking the …

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An image captioned "Scotty Game / Rules: don't look at this Scotty dog!". The image is of a Scotty dog which contains the text "Game Over."

A Novel Approach to Union Busting

Running a small business is hard. In today’s world full of soulless corporations, it is inspiring to see hard­working American families succeed in honest business ventures like buying out the competition and passing the result down to their children. Unfortunately, the world is often cruel to those with pure intentions. …

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(New) Intern's Report

We have intern, Ian “Meat” Turner, here by his own free will to write an article for us. Right, Meat? intern’s note- understood

strike Has rEadme in a chokehoLd. writers comPlain about lack of financial coMpEnsation.

iT appears tHat rEadme, the reallY cool newspaper, wHo hAVE becoMe loved …

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A Letter from the Editor

With Carnegie Mellon's tuition continuing to rise following the exponential function e(x) = fuck you, the amount of money that I can sink into readme is starting to dwindle. I've been trying to defraud several investors by promising good quality, funny content, but unfortunately, nobody has taken the bait yet.

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CMU Finals rife with cheating

A nefariously novel method of cheating was discovered this finals season when exam proctors noticed a student squinting quite obviously at the back of the head of the student in front of them. At first, the proctor suspected the cheater was simply engaged in a futile attempt to see through …

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Duo Push Goes Rogue

An unknown Computer Science major has been arrested after reportedly releasing a computer virus across Carnegie Mellon’s campus. The virus targets the Duo Push mobile app, causing it to be triggered whenever a CMU ID card is swiped. If authentication is not performed within sixty seconds, the virus will …

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes inspiration from Andrew Carnegie

Steel mills, newspapers, and Carnegie Mellon Architecture: what do these all have in common? They are all built on a foundation of Pittsburgh-based exploitative labor practices. Andrew Carnegie opened his first steel mill in 1875, and with it started Pittsburgh’s cultural obsession with underpaying and overworking the labor force. With …

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Am I the bazonkle?

Yesterday, I was taking the Zoop line back to my shelter pod after returning from a short half system-cycle trip to the flubble swamp. Now if you don't know anything about the flubble swamp, it's the peak of relaxation. There is no greater feeling in the multiverse than letting its …

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Readme Reviews: Wake Up Dead Man

Father Judd was working alone in his study, doing religious things, and sitting in a mahogany chair. Suddenly the door opens. He smiled, happy to see a familiar face. “Ah! Blanc, how can I help you?” “Well you see uh Fathuh, I was just perusing my local Barnes and Noble …

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A Modest Proposal for dealing with after hours noise

It is a melancholy object to those who walk though this great campus, when they see the streets and roads crowded with loud-mouthed hooligans. Studious learners must keep their windows boarded, and their doors shut to keep the noise from irresponsible teenagers who, as they grow up, either turn to …

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Beloved Football Chants At CMU

The Kiltie Marching Band wants blood. Despite, on paper, being the unassuming pep band for CMU’s respectable football team, firsthand experience brings out their reality; that the Kilties are a barely-restrained rabid mob. Observe the chants they call out at games, taunting the other team and wishing destruction upon them. …

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Small European Town Actually Not At All Romantic

This past summer, Carnegie Mellon ran its annual language immersion program in Italy. For the first time, the program was held in the small Italian town of Cappuccinovecchio, right between that place you forgot from tenth grade history class and that place you forgot from eleventh grade history class. In …

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The New And Improved Readme Guide to Being a Landlord

Congrats! You just picked up the keys to your second home. Time to turn this place into the shittiest slightly below average college house of some wannabe frat bro’s dreams. Here are readmE’s patented tips to get your place ready for some fresh faced college douchebags.

Tip 1: Your …

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Strip club entirely bereft of copper wire • UPMC defends end of gender­affirming care: "Boys *will* be boys." • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • We hid six grammatical errors in this magazine. Find them all to win a prize • Architectures, Civil Engineers meet to discuss making Carnegie Mellon infrastructure even more unfriendly • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • Rest in Peace Buddy • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • School of Drama declares succession from Carnegie Mellon, relocating to a place with "fewer nerds" • President Farnam spotted frequenting Carnival Parties • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Biology department recommends students engineer another pandemic for finals reprieve, extra credit offered • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • Topologist reveals Ferris wheel to be dodecahedron all along • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • "Nobody's seen the drama students in a month, should we check on them?", says concerned RA • Readme and the Tartan officially break up ­ "It’s not you, it’s me" • Strip club entirely bereft of copper wire • UPMC defends end of gender­affirming care: "Boys *will* be boys." • i have two calculators in my backpack and im ashamed. • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • We hid six grammatical errors in this magazine. Find them all to win a prize. • Architectures, Civil Engineers meet to discuss making Carnegie Mellon infrastructure even more unfriendly • My Professor Had One Comment After Viewing My Final Project: “This Sucks” • Rest in Peace Buddy • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • School of Drama declares succession from Carnegie Mellon, relocating to a place with "fewer nerds" • President Farnam spotted frequenting Carnival Parties • Studies show you're not being gaslit, you're just genuinely losing it • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • Artificial Intelligence trained by CMU students gains sentience, immediately kills itself • Biology department recommends students engineer another pandemic for finals reprieve, extra credit offered • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • Topologist reveals Ferris wheel to be dodecahedron all along. • Entropy sold out on caffeneited drinks, caffeine tablets, coffee­flavored chocolate, and methamphetamine • "Nobody's seen the drama students in a month, should we check on them?", says concerned RA • Readme and the Tartan officially break up ­ "It’s not you, it’s me"