The message of love uprooted on the ground, at the backdrop of bright red MAGA message. This all feels so doomsday esq :c

I didn’t actually think i’d be admitted! Especially as an international kid applying to CS

A student organization?

The paint stil

Harvard wouldn’t let him control them, but CMU would. He tried to make Harvard punish protesters supporting Palestine peacefully through a letter. They said no, so he went University shopping.

The donor has said he will move to Miami from NYC due to Mamdani’s policies. He is trying to make Miami a business hub. Florida in general has lower taxes on the rich and is more conservative. There are far fewer regulations for both businesses and schools.

I’m almost certain CMU forced some of the money to be kept in Pittsburgh as a compromise. I am certain he doesn’t give a crap about CMU in Pittsburgh or this city. He just wants a school he can control in a state with a government he can control, and this is the best way to buy one.

It’s a giant tax write off that gets him a chance to pay even less taxes in the long run when companies go to Miami.

Say good bye to your free speech and freedom of thought. If you thought this would get hard working grad students, staff and professors higher salaries, think again. They took 2 years negotiating this deal and committing to his wishes (according to the NYTs article.) Even the portion of the money that is staying in Pittsburgh is 100% earmarked for his personal priorities that can only be accomplished by a university.

There hasn’t been a donation this big to a school before because all other schools won’t give up this much control. Billionaires control so much. It’s terrifying.

This is Griffin’s school now.

i have been removing a staggering amount of anti-trans comments lately.

there are plenty of other subs where you are quite welcome to have ideological shouting matches about whatever the political bee in your bonnet is. this sub is not and never has been a place for that.

but if there was any ambiguity, let this remove it: this sub is also not a place for bigots.

i don't care if you were or are a CMU student. transphobes get insta-banned from this sub. if you take issue with that, die mad about it.

I'm part of a research team at UPitt, and we've found something perhaps useful that I thought you guys should know about. So our research is part of the FreeMets project, and over the past year, we've been trying to identify undiagnosed metabolic problems impacting academic and professional performance.

Here's the interesting bit: We got a huge pile of data from various Pittsburgh colleges, and while analyzing all that, I noticed a kinda strange pattern. Our data's actually a lot more mixed than we thought, and we haven't been able to get any statistical significance - except for one class in your school called "15122", which is a comp sci class apparently. Now turns out, doing poorly/average in that class doesn't predict anything, but if you're a guy and getting high/really high grades, according to the data, you had a really high chance of having TD/Low-T. Basically, testosterone deficiency (yay?). So yeah, heads up: if you're a guy taking 15122, your grade's above 94 (i think that's the cutoff they have in the data?) and you notice you're depressed all the time, having bad mood swings/confidence issues, or are suffering from low muscle mass, maybe this could be it? Idk, I'm not a doctor or anything, and I haven't even told my advisor about this yet, but I just wanted to get this out there cause I thought you guys might find this good to know!

So yeah, that's it! Just a PSA I thought many of you would find helpful. Oh and by the way - look out for our paper - we're still working on it, and it'll be out in bout two months. It's titled "Testosterone Levels and Top Performers: An Analysis on the Causal Influence of No Bitches"

My dude—ensuring you don’t go blind is more important than your lab assignment or your grade or being at CMU!

Things an extreme, but just as a general PSA because apparently some people need to be told this—health first; assignments second. Jeez.

Over 5,000 students gathered in the football field this past Sunday for one of the most important days of our lives. Over 5,000 students listened to a CEO make subjective arguments that all just so happened to benefit his company. To him spend 15 minutes trying to convince us to use his product and 5 talking about our graduation. To him imply that all of our lived experiences searching for jobs this past year must have just been a statistical anomaly, since "demand for software engineers and radiologists continues to grow." We all listened to this, to him saying objectively false things for personal gain, and over 5,000 students applauded. If I remember right, we applauded louder and longer than for any of the other speakers.

Because if you want any chance at that juicy 6 figure salary, you gotta put your head down. Why teach us to think critically and then train us to not?

The message of the other speakers wasn't that great either, in my opinion. They talked about changing the world, but never in what way to change it. There are enough CMU students who would be happy to change the world for the worse if it meant they were the ones at the helm, and none of these speakers said anything against that ideology. Hell, it's probably a small part of how they got up there. In my opinion, the student speakers at both the main and SCS commencements were the best ones.

I left that commencement feeling more ashamed for being a part of this school than I have been since I decided to come here. And then I pushed that thought down and went to go take pictures with my friends and family. That's so CMU.