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My Relationship with the Ready 2 Ride Mobile App

Yeah, I know she’s unpopular.

I know you want your analog methods back. This is like the NYC Metro card all over for you, huh? Well, I don’t care. I’m in love, and I’m proud of it.

Me and the Ready 2 Ride Mobile app met on the …

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What is Luigi Mangione up to these days?

He's in prison.

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Waking up at 4 AM is very healthy, actually

If you’ve spent any time on the cut you’ve been hounded by upperclassmen who do buggy asking you how tall you are (not a catcall, for the record). You’re in CIT and not one of the lucky few under 5’ 2’’, you’ve been asked to be a mechanic. Now I’m …

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Candidates for a 51st State

In this review, we’re going to be analyzing potential candidates to annex our great country to add as our 51st American state. It’s a buyer’s market right now, with BlackRock buying the Panama Canal and Microsoft acquiring yet another acre of old-growth redwood forest to build another data center. As …

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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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We're broke

Today, Readme spent the last of our meager budget purchasing kibble from PetSmart to stave off the death throes of one of our small, orphaned staffwriters. On our way out of the PetSmart, we were attacked by a man with a knife who took all of our print quota, forcing …

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A booth which is standing on large chicken legs.
An extremely detailed comic depicting a freshman (labeled "greedy freshmen") buying food while stating "yes, more food!" while a worker lebeled "overpaid worker" replies "of course! you're our FAVORITE class!". An emaciated individual in tattered clothes lies on the floor labeled "impoverished upperclassmen" is asking "won't somebody think of us?". A bald man labeled "Farnam" is taking a selfie while saying "this way, EVERYONE can take econ!"

Tales from Beyond Frick Park I: The Haunting of Gates-Hillman

No living creature can exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even lanternflies and cockroaches are supposed, by some, to dream. Gates Hillman, not sane, stood against the canyon, holding insanity within its glass-and-zinc ribcage; it had stood so for twenty years and might stand for twenty more, assuming FMS …

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Readme Goes to Shul

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Maggie Mo Daycare Lemonade Stands Busted

Carnegie Mellon University, humble home to a rambunctious fourteen thousand students from across the world, manages a tight ship on its campus. CMU has risen to international acclaim thanks to its remarkable near-abstinence from off-campus travel, partying, and many other plagues of state schools. This abstinence is in no small …

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Gay Target Nutcrackers find true love

T’was a dark and stormy night in the Target warehouse. It had been months since June, and all but one little gay nutcracker had found a forever home. Tears streamed down the face of the little gay nutcracker. Was he unlovable? Was he destined to be alone? Was this all …

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Readme Missed Connections: Wean 5

It was roughly 12:30 pm, Tuesday, October 29th, and I was en route to Wean 7500 for my Mechanics lecture. I enter through Wean La Prima and take the stairs usually, however, I saw that one of the elevators called to go up just arrived at floor 5. The elevator …

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The Worm's Perspective: A Review of RFK's Brain

The human brain comes in a variety of different forms, from the quick and witty to the dull and sluggish. I had the opportunity to taste a unique and rare brain a few years ago, and had I known whose it was, I would have eaten the whole thing- what …

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Readme's production in decline due to Prohibition

The pervasive hum of the printing press putting out Readme’s weekly dreck has finally faltered. A well-meaning administrator, upon hearing the rumor the magazine runs on a 70/30 blend of grain alcohol and caffeine, initiated a campuswide effort to enforce the national ban on spirits. The goal was to improve …

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What is MIT

To most of us, "MIT" stands for one thing, and one thing only: an overused BSD-style software license. But in a suburb of Boston, a little-known private university known as Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been racking up accolades at an impressive rate, sparking curiosity among CMU students and faculty.

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A movie poster for "Real Classes Have Curves."

Tax Guide for Santa's Presents

After much confusion and arrests during last year’s Christmas, the IRS has decided to release an official tax guide for any presents received from Santa. This will be a comprehensive 50-page guide listing all the various rules for how to declare these presents, factoring things like value, type, Christmas spirit, …

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What happens if you stay up late in Gates 8?

I am a fan of Gates 8. It's high up with a gorgeous view of campus, but not too high. It's quiet, but just noisy enough that you know it's safe. Sometimes I hear a skittering I can't quite place. I study, I play games, sometimes I just read …

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An image which contains the text "the Carnegie Mellon semester of humiliation" in CMU-consistent branding.
"Is your GPA below 3.0? Did you fail your last midterm? Will it take a miracle to pull your grades out of the gutter? You don't need a miracle. You always have another option. ENLIST NOW!" [background fades to camo pattern]

Field Guide To Sabotage

So, you’ve noticed that CMU’s annual Spring Carnival is right around the corner. Maybe you’ve also noticed the midterm season slump that’s hit campus, stopping boisterous spring semester plans in their tracks. You’ve noticed that your competition for booth and buggy just keeps chugging along while you’ve been left …

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A target labeled "use this square to swat bugs."

So you want to TA a class

Like many CMU students, you may have seen the 15-112 TAs decked out in their bright blue hoodies, haunting Gates 5. While their swag is atrocious, their aura is undeniable. To obtain this aura, you need to become a TA.

Many students expect their TA duties to be relatively …

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Back to School at CMU

It’s once again that time of the year for students to prepare to return to Pittsburgh for another semester at dear ol’ Carnegie Tech. And what better way is there to kick off the new year than with a trip to the bookstore for some back to school supplies? …

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Readme Rejected

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Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • CMU students surprised to find out nobody cares how little they slept • Scandal as Kermit found in saucy Peppa pics, Ms Piggy exclusive interview! • Hilbert Hotel relocated to Doherty • Topologist reveals Ferris wheel to be dodecahedron all along • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Celsius starts sponsoring student all-­nighters • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • I met Santa Claus, she's black • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester • In devastating blow to CMU culture, freshmen are allowed to talk to upperclassmen • Is giving your students A's in recitation the same as liking their story and hoping they respond? • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Young men increasingly feeling that having a Borat impression counts as a personality ­ Report • Reviewing Gary’s oh shit! Cat get away from Buddy! Buddy isn’t food! What did you do to Buddy?! • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM" • Wind storm politely opens door, walks inside CMU building, and breaks every computer • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Women breaking glass ceilings suffer head lacerations • CMU students surprised to find out nobody cares how little they slept • Scandal as Kermit found in saucy Peppa pics, Ms Piggy exclusive interview! • Hilbert Hotel relocated to Doherty • Topologist reveals Ferris wheel to be dodecahedron all along. • "It's not imposter syndrome, we did admit you as a mistake" admissions office admits • Celsius starts sponsoring student all-­nighters • DeviantArt, Conservapedia, and Other Websites We Don't Know Why We're Tagged In • I met Santa Claus, she's black. • “Surely the balloon animal guy will fix this schools mental health problems” says CMU admin for the fifth time this semester. • In devastating blow to CMU culture, freshmen are allowed to talk to upperclassmen • Is giving your students A's in recitation the same as liking their story and hoping they respond? • Dog doesn't solve relationship, couple moves on to children. • School of Computer Science puts funding toward public transit; installs tram line on the Gates spiral • There is nothing funny about erectile dysfunction • Young men increasingly feeling that having a Borat impression counts as a personality ­ Report • Reviewing Gary’s oh shit! Cat get away from Buddy! Buddy isn’t food! What did you do to Buddy?! • Dreamworks newest IP revealed: "How to train your LLM". • Wind storm politely opens door, walks inside CMU building, and breaks every computer. • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death