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Readme Goes to Carnival


Sweepstakes forbids new live-birth method

Just weeks ahead of Carnival, Sweepstakes has dropped a bombshell on all buggy teams: due to existing rules prohibiting mass loss during a race, the “live birth method” is officially banned. In previous years, buggy drivers would impregnate themselves prior to Carnival, nourishing the fetus with Stack’d and melatonin gummies. …

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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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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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Welcome to Pittsburgh!

The Big Apple. The City of Angels. The Motor City. The Windy City. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is known by many names that reflect the splendor and enigma of this Pacific Northwest paradise.

A European jewel nestled in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, Pittsburgh has amazed at least a dozen …

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Readme Gets Deployed

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Fact Checking The Gettysburg Address

With the election season reaching its apex, I have found it necessary to untangle some of the webs of misinformation that have been weaved through underhanded political campaigns. At the forefront of this country's greatest deception is none other than the highly esteemed so-called “honest” Abe.

That’s right! If …

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CIA Buggy Mounts Another Coup in Guatemala

A CIA buggy with a turret on top fighting in a war in Guatemala Last Monday CIA forces entered Guatemala City to launch a week-long attack on the Guatemalan government, culminating in the ousting of President Bernardo Arévalo and the instatement of an authoritarian military dictatorship. According to leaked documents found in Stever basement, the campaign was a joint operation between CIA Buggy and …

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Hamburg Hall to be renamed Cheeseburg Hall

After much debate, David P. Bennett, the Vice President for University Advancement at CMU has officially made the decision to rename Hamburg Hall to Cheeseburg Hall. Designed in 1915, Cheeseburg Hall originally served as the headquarters for the U.S. Bureau of Mines; however, in 1984, the building was purchased by …

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SCC preps for Carnival

As Carnival comes nearer, SCC’s heart has been squarely in the work getting Midway ready for students, alumni, and lost geese to have a fun and safe experience. They’ve been toiling away for weeks, and here at Readme, we forgive them for their foolish tendencies, like their tardiness on literally …

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Student Dies of Autoerotic Asphyxiation on Donner Swings

PITTSBURGH, PA In a first-of-its-kind incident for CMU, a student has passed away from asphyxiation by autofellatio, otherwise known as a “self suck incident.” Eyewitnesses report that late Thursday night, the victim approached the playground swings in the Donner Ditch, pulled their pants down, and proceeded to assume a position …

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The New And Improved Readme Guide to Being a Landlord

Congrats! You just picked up the keys to your second home. Time to turn this place into the shittiest slightly below average college house of some wannabe frat bro’s dreams. Here are readmE’s patented tips to get your place ready for some fresh faced college douchebags.

Tip 1: Your …

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With child labor laws repealed, CMU Daycare begins buggy training

In the landmark Supreme Court case Buggy v. United States, child labor laws have successfully been repealed to allow the use of children for buggy drivers. CMU has already begun transforming its daycare center in Margaret Morrison into a state-of-the-art buggy training facility. Children as young as two will begin …

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President Eisenhower warns America how fucking cool the Military Industrial Complex will be

This past Monday morning of the wonderful current year of nineteen fifty I can’t be bothered to look up the right year, President Dwight Destructenator Eisenhower stepped onto the stage at a 9 a.m. press conference and chugged from his liter of vodka as he prepared to give his most …

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An advertisement consisting of text superimposed on an image of Walking to the Sky taken from behind the statue of a child who looks upward. it states: "Now hiring! New vacancy open at Walking to the Sky! Call (412) 268-2323 to apply today! (*Rest in peace, cmudaddythicc)"
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O-Week Crime Report

Hello freshmen, welcome to the best years of your life! And to everyone else, we are so glad you didn’t drop out or quit. While you all were busy, we at readme were also busy, sniffing out crime on campus. Really getting into the dirt for this one. Interested? Read …

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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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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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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."

Auntie ReadMe’s: A Conversation With Dr. Et. Al

After being suspended from the Guild of Advice Columnists for “giving bad advice” because “you can’t just lie” or something and “several people have died as a result of going along with something this column said and that means you can legally be charged with manslaughter” and other silly allegations …

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A pie chart of survey results showing that 57% of Carnegie Mellon students believe the country CMU Africa is located in to be "Africa." The other 30%, 11%, and 2% are "Mellon Institute", "Didn't know any countries in Africa", and "other", respectively.
Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Monkey business fails to succeed in ever competitive economy • You think you're a leftist? I'm wearing Che Guevara! • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • That freshman you met during the O-week floor meet-and-greet is not your future husband • Physics professor explains the heat death of the universe in terms of cold, soggy Rev Noodle • Opinions: Dishwashers are the LLMs of the household appliance world • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game • NO EXCEPTIONS. CMU to enforce dismount zones for students in wheelchairs • GOOD NEWS! 3rd Amendment Repealed: Veteran housing crisis resolved • The best clubs to join where you can get people to do your homework for you • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Artemis 2's local Claude instance hallucinates, makes a call to the "blow_up_ship_violently_with_cameras_watching" API • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030 • readme too single to have Valentine's Day Edition • Wild Blue opens as gas station food for buggy repair depot • Andrew Melons? New proof reveals that Andrew Mellon secretly had big naturals • Internship interviews now include mandatory duel to the death • Kilties go on strike, now only wear normal hats • Dennis Prager won’t stop impregnating our country’s petite gay men causing national twink shortage • Monkey business fails to succeed in ever competitive economy • You think you're a leftist? I'm wearing Che Guevara! • Loving Couple LARP as bitter, nearly-­separated divorcees • That freshman you met during the O-week floor meet-and-greet is not your future husband. • Physics professor explains the heat death of the universe in terms of cold, soggy Rev Noodle • Opinions: Dishwashers are the LLMs of the household appliance world. • If you don't read this magazine, we'll shoot this Scotty Dog. • Hasbro publishes internship rejection trading card game. • NO EXCEPTIONS. CMU to enforce dismount zones for students in wheelchairs. • GOOD NEWS! 3rd Amendment Repealed: Veteran housing crisis resolved. • The best clubs to join where you can get people to do your homework for you. • 3D Printer Crushed by Anvil, Now Regular Printer • Artemis 2's local Claude instance hallucinates, makes a call to the "blow_up_ship_violently_with_cameras_watching" API. • Top scientists suggest ReadMe will generate an original joke by 2030. • readme too single to have Valentine's Day Edition • Wild Blue opens as gas station food for buggy repair depot.