Today should have been a happy day. I finally got my PhD from @MIT, with my 5-year-old twins, my 2-year-old and my parents (children of Holocaust survivors) traveling halfway around the world just to be there. Instead, MIT’s student commencement speaker decided it was

(Guy Zyskind*)

@guyzys · Twitter · 2025-05-30 00:09 UTC

@RetsefL @MIT I was there today. Instead of celebrating my PhD, I had to explain to my 5 year olds why people hate us for no reason