Break Out
Answer: STEAL BARS
Ryan Judge, Summit Wei, Kaz Zhou

The motto mentioned in the flavor text is "My heart is in the work," a quote from Carnegie that is the motto of CMU. This is illustrated in the image, with a heart inside a picture representng work.
The three meta answers have items "in" them: ROLL OVER, VAUDEVILLE, and BEAU TYING. These words have lengths 4, 5, and 6, the same lengths that appear in this puzzle, so we're on the right track.
From here, we can also find these items "in" another location. Because the circular drawing mirrors the top image, we want to mirror the phrase, and conveniently all of these words have a similar phrase that can be made out of it:

LOVE IS IN THE AIR
(THE) DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

AIR, DETAILS, and EYE OF THE BEHOLDER match the lengths of the outside letters, so we place them in and take the letters in order to spell STEAL BARS.


Author's Notes

In a return to our artistic days of old, the swirly text in this puzzle was made using PowerPoint.