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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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Pittsburgh's Failing Water Infrastructure

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link; any system should be not judged by its ability to excel in ideal conditions, but rather in its performance under predictable yet adverse circumstances. This week’s blizzard has revealed severe issues within Pittsburgh’s public works sector. It is reasonable to …

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SCC To Begin Enforcing Hays Code on Midway

As booth organizations begin to design their booths for the 2025 Spring Carnival, Spring Carnival Committee has announced a controversial new slate of regulations for the upcoming semester. In a press release emailed out to all booth chairs SCC required all booth designs to comply with Hollywood’s 1934 Hays Code. …

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CMU Apologizes For Typo, Tuition to Increase by 37.2% Instead of 3.72

The president of Carnegie Mellon University, Farnam Jahanian, recently issued an email apologizing for a typo in a recent tuition update sent to students. The email incorrectly notified students of a 3.72% price increase in tuition. In reality, the increase was 37.2%. Jahanian’s email writer, who also ghostwrites for …

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"Are you a small Asian woman? CMU wants YOU for buggy driving! Contact a buggy org and strap into a tin can today!"

CMU Computer Science has gone WOKE!

Imagine that you’re a new student at Carnegie Mellon University, and it’s your first day on campus. It has long been your dream to graduate from CMU’s prestigious School of Computer Science, and today marks the first step of realizing that ambition. You walk into Gates and look around with …

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A Solution to the “last steel factory” amount of schoolwork CMU students must do daily.

It is clear that CMU students are overwhelmed by unnecessary, unrealistic, unfathomable, unfashionable amounts of schoolwork assigned to them every day. A new policy has just entered into testing by the lab of Dr. Et Al, and has shown remarkable results in regards to student-professor relations.

This policy grants …

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The Hunt

The Penn of Western Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, is known globally as a hub of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and so much more. Not only are these hardworking students known for their level of involvement in undergraduate and graduate research, but they have also been trailblazers in the field of collegiate …

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An air-to-air missile with wheels and a buggy-style push bar. It's captioned "new Lockheed Martin sponsored buggy, coming soon to a civilian town near you."

Readme's Moderately Late Guide to Choosing your Freshman Dorm

As a freshman, freshwoman, or fresh non-binary person, part of your experience will be to live in one of CMU’s 13 premium housing options or Donner House. Without further ado, here’s Readme’s guide to everything you wish you’d known when you’d ranked your housing choices. We’d have published this article …

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A College Student's Guide to saving money

As I wrap up my first semester of college, I have begun to reflect on all of the new experiences and people I have met. One of these is “poor people”. College has exposed me to a breadth of new experiences and I have realized some people are in the …

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An illustration of a Scotty dog pawing at the legs of someone who's just entered through a door.
A handwriting worksheet for the letter C, labeled "C is for Carnegie Mellon", bearing the official CMU stamp.
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)

People you don't want to be alone in a booth with

A serial killer
A cereal killer (if you’re a box of Froot Loops®)
A cobra (SigEp is really putting in the work)
An IRS agent (who actually pays their taxes?)
A Jehovah’s Witness (now they have a way to solicit on-campus)
That guy who watches me through my window while …

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The Lottery

The morning of October 27th was cloudy and overcast, with the cold of a mid-autumn day; the leaves of the trees showed hints of orange, and the dutifully maintained grass was richly green. The students of Carnegie Mellon began to gather on the Cut around ten o’clock; the whole lottery …

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Pentagon Swears In New War Crime Scapegoat After Previous One Died

The US Department of Defense has recently concluded its emergency internal election to find a worthy successor to the previous war crime scapegoat who unexpectedly died this year. The election was hastily called because there were no contingency plans in case the last scapegoat died, as no one at the …

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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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Carnegie Crime Report

README prides itself on informing the students of Carnegie Mellon on local news and major events. Due to a large influx in crime on and near campus, README is publishing the details of several crimes so students know what to look out for. Safety is README’s top priority as an …

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A Letter from the Editor

As you may or may not know, ReadMe has been around since the dawn of time. We’re so old, in fact, that for our first volumes we were called TellMe. We orated about the Big Bang, the age of the dinosaurs, and the evolution of humanity. Once we could write, …

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Readme Responds to The Allegations

Let it become beknownst to whomstever accused our collective of various “allegations”, that they are all factually incoherent and blatantly untrue. This response will be organized in the following format — an untrue statement made by an adversary, and our rebuttal.

“Readme will be responsible for various cases of …

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"John Biren for President (definitely not Biden we swear)" / "VOTE" / "Remember, age is just a number" [image of Joe Biden in a fake moustache and dark glasses]
Scandal as Kermit found in saucy Peppa pics, Ms Piggy exclusive interview! • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent • Due to overenrollment, CMU to begin holding classes in the steam tunnels • MAHA movement vows to move Stack'd off-campus to lower student obesity • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • "Surely this one will work," says student on sixth cup of coffee • Due to overenrollment, CMU to add 4 AM exam slots • President Farnam spotted frequenting Carnival Parties • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad • Student who refuses to pronounce Chinese peoples' names insists it's pronounced 'Barthhhelona' • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • CMU students take Pitt finals: “It’s nice to be good at something” • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time • OPINION: I want everyone to be happy, except my favorite musicians • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96 • Gelt still more real than crypto • Stupid fucking egg sits on wall, rolls off like a little dumbass bitch • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Creator of Bradford pear tree amongst first to be killed on invention of time travel • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Shocking new scandal breaks as leaked report reveals Tim Walz saved puppy from drowning • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • Student trains for Olympic speedwalking by signing up for class in Mellon Institute • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • Academic Office allows you to superscore GPA and BAC during Carnival only • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Scandal as Kermit found in saucy Peppa pics, Ms Piggy exclusive interview! • White boy SHOCKS locals by speaking in fluent Chinese accent. • Due to overenrollment, CMU to begin holding classes in the steam tunnels • MAHA movement vows to move Stack'd off-campus to lower student obesity • CMU air has "just the right amount" of Radon, administration pinky promises. • “It’s actually a metaphor for being reeeaaalllly hungry.” ­ author, on cannibalism • Can President Joe Biden please presidentially pardon my AIV? • "Surely this one will work," says student on sixth cup of coffee. • Due to overenrollment, CMU to add 4 AM exam slots • President Farnam spotted frequenting Carnival Parties • Tucker Carlson finally proposes to Green M&M. • Novel studies demonstrate that drinking water and eating food are good for you, pulling all nighters and shotgunning Celsius are bad. • Student who refuses to pronounce Chinese peoples' names insists it's pronounced 'Barthhhelona'. • "Wean Eight-­Floor Dash in event of broken elevators" to become Olympic sport. • Student uses AI to write suicide note, gets posthumous AIV • President's Advisory Board on Student Well-Being, Mental Health, and the Academic Experience releases first report: "It's bad." • “I have no way of knowing”, says person who could very easily look it up • CMU students take Pitt finals: “It’s nice to be good at something”. • Carnegie Mellon color no longer the concept of plaid • Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • Actual fire in Morewood; No one leaves this time. • OPINION: I want everyone to be happy, except my favorite musicians • Martha Stewart cleared of all murder charger between 1995­-96. • Gelt still more real than crypto. • Stupid fucking egg sits on wall, rolls off like a little dumbass bitch • Sweepstakes Chair bans buggy-­driving amputees, claiming they have competitive advantage • Creator of Bradford pear tree amongst first to be killed on invention of time travel. • CMU partners with CMR to release 60mph mobility scooter. • CMU Hollywood theme goes straight to streaming • Student amazed by foreign culture after study abroad in Philadelphia • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • Shocking new scandal breaks as leaked report reveals Tim Walz saved puppy from drowning • I walked to the sky and all I got was this lousy T-shirt • Student trains for Olympic speedwalking by signing up for class in Mellon Institute • CMU student lives in a barrel, claims it's better than first year housing • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • SLICE defends university­-sanctioned orgies • CS Senior devastated that he must complete Masters to finally fuck computer • Academic Office allows you to superscore GPA and BAC during Carnival only • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM".