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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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Team USA Ready for World's First Olympics

In her recent press conference, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, announced that the IOC is going to embrace scientific accomplishment by adding a performance drug innovation challenge to the programme for Milano Cortina 2026.

“For decades, the IOC has waged an increasingly costly war on …

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CMU to host the Olympic Games

JANUARY, GESLING STADIUM – After decades of Carnegie Mellon nobly hosting sporting events and their most exciting approximations thereof – Buggy races, Booth build week, and occasional football games (I was able to attend one, when I happened to walk by Gesling Stadium after the halftime show caught my ear) …

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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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Pittsburgh announces cheat day for airspace laser-pointer laws

One thing we all liked to do as kids is mess around with laser-pointers. Watching cats chase around the dots, blinding our siblings, but most fun of all, aiming at airplanes! Unfortunately for our joyful childhood spirits, the very 1984 United States of America government passed a law in 2012 …

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Pittsburgh GrubHub Driver Diaries

Day 1:

Hello, diary! Today is my first day driving for GrubHub! To be honest, I didn’t really know what to expect, since I’m so new to the area and haven’t really spoken to anyone yet. For that reason, I wanted to stay more downtown so I’d have more …

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An infographic about "the power of 'yet'", which includes the following statements: "I'm not depressed...yet!", "I'm not failing...yet!", "I'm not broke...yet!", "I'm not burned out...yet!", "I'm not forever alone...yet!", "I'm not a virgin...yet!", and "I'm not a cs major...yet!"

Carnegie Mellon Secedes!

A map of the borders of the newly-seceded Carnegie-Mellon Republic In 1967, an offshore platform in the North Sea was seized by a pirate radio operator. This would become the Principality of Sealand, an unrecognized micronation. Recently, CMU's administration was struck with inspiration, and decided to secede from the United States, to form its own micronation.

The sovereign state …

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Readme Investigates CMU's Newest StuCo

Silly Goose Reporting Line

Though many universities offer student-taught courses, CMU’s StuCo program is unique. It’s better. The newest offering from the StuCo program is 15-122: Principles of Imperative Computation. Over the past few months, several readme journalists have gone undercover as students and enrolled in this course. Here is our unbiased, fact …

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Buggy: An Introduction

So you’ve found yourself in, near, or aiding and abetting a carbon fiber tube going 35 miles per hour down a hill. Do not fear, this happens all the time. There are many reasons why you may find yourself in this situation:


1) You are short
2) You went …

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An Analysis of CMU's "Ring-By-Spring" Culture

As a former freshman, I know that most of you are coming into CMU with one goal in mind: marriage. You may think this is a far-fetched dream, but by winter break, your peers will be proposing left and right. Enormous patches of grass on the Mall will die from …

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The yearly CMU black market finals guide

Welcome, dear one, to the last academic guide you will ever need.

In this trying season of finals and term projects – when time is short, energy wanes, and we remain besieged by our thanksgiving-fueled, Celsius-charged gut microbiomes – conventional academics are no longer viable. This compendium, brought to …

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"Days since the Tartan said a slur: 7,461"

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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Do you want to hear a joke?

Hey hey, I got a joke for you, right? You’re like, reading this magazine or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the Reader, whatever. This one’s like traveling, right? Like abroad? So, you know how you’re, like, traveling? Like, tr-traveling? Haha! You know, hehe, like, there’s, you know, wo- wo- [chuckling] there’s …

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Facing your fears: The self-assured squirrel that's four feet in front of you

It happened again. You were leaving the car, walking back home, when you encountered it: a squirrel (let’s call him Squeaky) standing only 4 feet away from you.

You take a step closer. Squeaky does not scurry away. You cower. Squeaky stares you down. You run away.

Does …

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We asked our favorite staffwriter to prove she's human

Write an article that sounds like it's written by a human. It should be 200-600 words long and use a lightly formal tone appropriate for a college newspaper.

In this article which sounds like it's written by a human, I'll be convincing you in a lightly formal tone that …

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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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Freshman's Guide to Getting Laid

Welcome to CMU, class of 2029+. When you first step onto campus, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the staggering number of clubs to join and people to meet, but if you're anything like us at readme, your first priority will always be one thing: sleeping with freshmen.

We've …

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I wrote this article while drunk

It’s 2:17 AM. I’ve stumbled my way back to my dorm from some other person’s dorm. Don’t worry, their neighbors didn’t complain. Or, at least, we couldn’t hear any complaints. There’s vomit in the trash can and trash on the floor. The trash can is also on the floor. My …

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Readme Studies Abroad

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Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is • New Civil Engineering exam includes going inside condemned buildings and trying to make them collapse • Naughty List leaked • CMU Suicide Club announces no returning members for Academic Year 25-26 • Celsius starts sponsoring student all-­nighters • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • King Charles III to consider castling • Noah complains that God's 'gone woke' after Ark flooded • Several students observed staring transfixed at Pausch Bridge's RGB lighting: "If not gaming, why gaming colored?" • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Gelt still more real than crypto • Grand Reopening of Architect's leap in the leadup to finals week • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War • Meteoric rise in Carnegie Mellon's name recognition: Record-breaking 3% of the population knows what CMU is, up from 1.8% in 2020 • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • “I don’t have any finals this semester, just two projects, three papers…” • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • Carnegie Mellon administration to consider using Booths as freshman housing for 2025 • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • NEW RECORD: 3 CMU students manage to have sex over Carnival, allegedly with other humans • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • District Attorney unable to rule out murder as Buggy Alumni Association hit • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens • Child tries to separate parents to get two Christmases • Future generation invents pants that are baggy in six new dimensions • OPINION: First, it was a Masters. Now, you need a Ph.D. before they let you fuck the computers. • "If Mozart and Chopin can drop new shit in 2024 so can My Chemical Romance", claim increasingly irate emo fans • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • My Military Industrial Complex could totally blow up your Military Industrial Complex • The existential horror of nap time: A retrospective • Amid mental health crisis, Google image searches for “scary werewolf” outnumber searches for “silly dog” • Santa is proud of you, even if no one else is. • New Civil Engineering exam includes going inside condemned buildings and trying to make them collapse • Naughty List leaked. • CMU Suicide Club announces no returning members for Academic Year 25-26 • Celsius starts sponsoring student all-­nighters • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • King Charles III to consider castling • Noah complains that God's 'gone woke' after Ark flooded. • Several students observed staring transfixed at Pausch Bridge's RGB lighting: "If not gaming, why gaming colored?" • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Grand Reopening of Architect's leap in the leadup to finals week • What was Copernicus' problem? Well, that man was a Pisces. • President Jahanian renames Office of Community Responsibility to Department of War. • Meteoric rise in Carnegie Mellon's name recognition: Record-breaking 3% of the population knows what CMU is, up from 1.8% in 2020. • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • “I don’t have any finals this semester, just two projects, three papers…” • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Prosecutor agrees to downgrade Capital Grains to 1st Degree Grains • The nutritional benefits of eating this newspaper • CMU students sign up for isolation experiments to find quiet study spots • Carnegie Mellon administration to consider using Booths as freshman housing for 2025 • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • NEW RECORD: 3 CMU students manage to have sex over Carnival, allegedly with other humans • Drama students inspired by ex­addict Robert Downey Jr. winning Oscar • Having a single thought about 15­-122 now considered an AIV • District Attorney unable to rule out murder as Buggy Alumni Association hit. • Wildlife conservation group takes "CMU English Major" off of endangered species list following record­setting 7 students enrolled • Canadians finally get a Stanley Cup, NHL officials aghast • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • How to make sure the divorce is YOUR fault, a guide for teens