MIT LAUNCHES “KNOWLEDGE GLORY HOLE” FOR DESPERATE LEARNERS SEEKING INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION
MIT finally admitted what we all knew: they’re educational exhibitionists who get off on flashing their big brains at the rest of us. Their new platform, MIT Learn, is basically academic OnlyFans without the subscription fee.
EDUCATIONAL VOYEURISM REACHES CLIMAX
The Institute’s latest digital masterstroke, MIT Learn, lets intellectual peeping toms access over 12,700 educational resources without the hassle of actually attending MIT or being smart enough to get in. Users can now freely browse courses, videos, and podcasts created by people so much smarter than them it’s actually depressing.
“We’re basically opening our kimonos to show the world our massive… intellect,” says Dimitris Bertsimas, vice provost for open learning, who definitely wasn’t compensating for anything when designing this platform. “It’s a stepping stone toward our broader vision of making everyone feel inadequate about their education from the comfort of their own homes.”
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The platform’s crown jewel is an AI assistant named “Ask Tim,” which sounds suspiciously like they wanted to call it “Ask MIT” but realized that would be too f@#king obvious. This digital know-it-all helps users find courses aligned with their “personal and professional goals,” or as studies show, helps 87% of users procrastinate on work they should actually be doing.
Dr. Seymour Butts, Professor of Educational Psychology at Completely Made Up University, explains: “This AI assistant basically exists so people can pretend they’re talking to a real MIT professor without facing the soul-crushing reality that they’d never understand a word a real MIT professor says.”
INTELLECTUAL FOREPLAY WITH NO CLIMAX
According to MIT officials who are clearly huffing their own supply, MIT Learn creates a “long-term relationship” between learners and the Institute. This relationship reportedly offers all the frustration of dating someone way out of your league who constantly reminds you how smart they are while never letting you actually touch their… diploma.
“It’s like educational edging,” explains Professor Ivana Tinkle, Head of Digital Learning Engagement. “We’ll get you right to the edge of understanding quantum mechanics before you realize you still can’t do basic algebra without your phone calculator.”
ACADEMIC GENTRIFICATION GOES DIGITAL
MIT Learn transforms “how people engage with what we offer digitally,” says Christopher Capozzola, senior associate dean for open learning, who didn’t realize he was basically admitting that no one could find anything on their previous websites.
The new “front door” to MIT provides personalized recommendations based on user interests, much like how Netflix suggests shows you’ll never watch or how dating apps recommend people who’ll never match with you. A staggering 94.6% of test users reported feeling both smarter and dumber simultaneously while using the platform.
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Peter Hirst, senior associate dean with apparently too much time on his hands, gushed that MIT Learn solves the problem of MIT being too f@#king good at too many things. “Now everyone can pretend they’re getting an MIT education without the $80,000 annual tuition or crippling imposter syndrome that comes with actually attending,” he didn’t exactly say but definitely implied.
The platform was developed with input from countless committees with acronyms and titles so convoluted they make the Tax Code look like “See Spot Run.” Former provost Cynthia Barnhart called it “the latest step in a long tradition,” which is academic-speak for “we’ve been showing off for decades and aren’t stopping now.”
In conclusion, MIT Learn stands as humanity’s best hope for pretending we’re all getting smarter while actually just watching 3-minute snippets of lectures before switching back to TikTok. Studies predict that by 2026, 99% of users will have MIT Learn bookmarked right next to their pornography collection, satisfying equally primal but entirely different urges to feel momentarily fulfilled before the crushing reality of inadequacy returns.
