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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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"New study abroad program announced: Hell. Contact your advisor to apply today!" [image of Farnam Jahanian shaking hands with the devil, surrounded by flames] "*Tepper stuents will receive priority"

The realization that the year 2014 is in 4 hours 5 minutes 17 seconds, and its aging-related implications

In this paradigm-shifting study, we unveil the startling truth that our perception of time is seriously flawed. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the year that occurred four years ago was not 2016, but actually 2020. This conclusion was arrived at by the fact that 2024 - 4 = 2020, and not …

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SDC BUGGY NOTICE BOARD Freshmen Job Openings

SDC BUGGY Inexperienced working freshmen wanted! Inquire with us for:

STRONG SECURITY NEEDED for intellectual property protection on rolls, race mornings. Must be steadfast, relatively uncurious, good with cold. PAY MARGINAL, EXPERIENCE INVALUABLE. For full particulars see [Redacted], arrive with jacket.

TONGUE-TIED? APPLY NOW in official Deer In …

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18-100 to introduce larger toolkits

ECE freshman carrying black and yellow tool kits is an ever-popular sight on Carnegie Mellon’s campus. Originally introduced to publicly shame people for choosing ECE as a major, the tool kits cemented their place when the head TAs for 18-100 realized they could store lab materials within the tool kits. …

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New Study Finds Vaccines Cause CMU Students

Many parents have expressed concerns about the possible long-term complications of vaccinating their children. However, leading scientists recently discovered a positive relationship between childhood immunization and readiness for Carnegie Mellon University.

SCS freshman Lily Anderson received the measles-mumps rubella vaccine at age three. By age four, her parents had …

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A fun spin on a popular childhood game

Tag is a certified childhood classic, and everyone knows the rules. However, I have personally found that if you play it enough times, tag quickly becomes boring. Nevertheless, as a center of innovation, mastermind engineers in the halls of the Princeton of the Alleghenies have devised an updated version of …

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A word search for the word "word" filled entirely with the letter W (aside from "word" in the center).

Dying CMU students will now take "Finals"

On Friday, Warner Hall announced a policy of "Finals" (with a capital "F"), much to the confusion of the student body. While the specifics of the plan have yet to be shared, administration has made concepts of it clear: all CMU students who die during the fall and spring semesters …

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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 color-by-numbers of a wintery scene, where every section is numbered 1 for white.

There will come soft Tanks

“The bathrooms are down to your left, past the staircase,” he threw out to no one in particular. His hardened grey face stared, with a thousand-yard stare, into an assortment of broken glass, bent metal, and the vandalized remains of a few abandoned bikes that had been left for far …

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A modern dialectic of oppression

In our day and age, we have had the pleasure of learning about the mistakes and sins of our forefathers, and have been given the opportunity to redeem ourselves as a global civilization. In many ways, we have, with many free to practice their cultures — however as we advance …

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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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CivE department apologizes for increase in campus construction

Earlier this week the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering issued a statement addressing the sudden increase in construction around CMU’s campus, making many spaces unusable, and causing significant traffic delays as 5th Ave and Forbes Ave have had sections of the roads closed. In the statement, the head of …

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[TODO]

How to tell if your classmates peaked in college

As CMU alumni return to their alma mater for the carnival season, one question is at the top of their minds as they see their former classmates: “Did they peak in university?”

To help out our fellow Tartans, we have created this guide on how to identify people who …

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Andrew Carnegie had the right idea

People who know me in person may know that I am a man who wears underwear. But shopping for men's underwear feels really gay, because you have to like, look at lots of men in underwear. This is a problem, because I am very homophobic.

I considered wearing women's …

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So you're on a couple waitlists

This past week CMU students were given the opportunity to register for spring semester classes. Due to over-enrollment this year some poor sops (me) were given 9:30 pm registration times. By noon, 15-122 already had a 370-person waitlist, which is fine, it’s only a pre-req to every single course I …

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Readme: An Unbiased, Impartial Review

I, Linda Green, a proud member of the Good Christian Mothers of America, would like to make my voice heard on this despicable and anti-Christian so-called satire newspaper.

I was first introduced to this wretched and unholy publication after I learned about the secret homosexual agenda of The Very …

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Rabbi hot?! • Is giving your students A's in recitation the same as liking their story and hoping they respond? • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Strip club entirely bereft of copper wire • Kanye up to something • Person who said "Wow, that was easy" after exam stoned to death • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Reviewing Gary’s neighbor Ted’s fish-grave-sized shovel • Alumni find 50% of soul returns after donating to Readme (cmureadme.com/donate) • We hid six grammatical errors in this magazine. Find them all to win a prize • Wiegand devoid of O-week food after USAID shuttered • Transphobes: It's still Constantinople • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Lawmakers determine abortion to be legal only when Mercury is in retrograde • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Tired of protein shakes? Gym bros invent "carb shakes" comprised of beer, ground pasta, and soft-serve ice cream • Rabbi hot?! • Is giving your students A's in recitation the same as liking their story and hoping they respond? • CMU's Drug Problem: Where are all the drugs? • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Intro to Religion Course Deadline Drops; Whole Class Converts to Judiasm. • Steam tunnels condense into water tunnels • USNews names CMU number 1 school named after Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon for the 125th year in a row • Strip club entirely bereft of copper wire • Kanye up to something • Person who said "Wow, that was easy" after exam stoned to death • Victorian Child unimpressed by current labor standards, "You can't do anything these days!" • Reviewing Gary’s neighbor Ted’s fish-grave-sized shovel • Alumni find 50% of soul returns after donating to Readme (cmureadme.com/donate). • We hid six grammatical errors in this magazine. Find them all to win a prize. • Wiegand devoid of O-week food after USAID shuttered. • Transphobes: It's still Constantinople • Student Senate Elections Board excited to see more students than ever interesting in voting them out • Lawmakers determine abortion to be legal only when Mercury is in retrograde • How to not have your self-esteem brought down by all the clearly smarter students in your tour group • Tired of protein shakes? Gym bros invent "carb shakes" comprised of beer, ground pasta, and soft-serve ice cream.