Greeshma Adiga
she/her
Staffwriter
Chemical Engineering, 2029
Bio
Greeshma was bought by your mom and placed in direct sunlight yesterday. She's already dehydrated. Unlike Pinocchio, she wishes she wasn't real, and indulges in escapism via investigative journalism.
Fun fact
Greeshma once almost saved a life, but she didn't make the cut
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A Freshman's Guide to Carnival
You and I have one thing in common: We’ve both never been to Spring Carnival. Fear not, because my expert sleuthing over the past few days has allowed me to gain insight into this mysterious campuswide event. What does a midway taste like? Who’s in the doghouse? I’ll answer all your questions and more in the guide below!
Spring Carnival came to be when CMU administration realized that the student body may revolt without bread and circuses. Hence the tradition of selling snacks so unhealthy they make Stack’d Underground look like a dietician’s haven. The rest of Carnival’s events …
The Spinning Jenny is sapphic, actually.
The story you’ve been told about the Spinning Jenny is a lie.
Years of queer erasure and the narratives of straight men have hidden the true lesbian love story that is the Spinning Jenny. While your history books tell you that it was a yarnspinning device invented by James Hargreaves, this is a lie. The true inventor of Jenny? Why, Jenny, of course.
Jenny may have pretended to be careless when she dropped a spinning wheel on its side, but she was actually a mechanical genius, enabling the eight-spindled invention that would revolutionize the cotton industry.
When …
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 with the weight of multiple people or strenuous physical activity, under the guise of their “sustainability”. One athlete, Danish figure skater Ahn Derink, was dreading their return.
“Why put so many hot, young, muscular athletes in the same place if you don’t want them to fuck?” asks Derink, when …
