My Parents Skipped My Mit Graduation To Go To My Sister’s Ballet Recital Instead. They Didn’t Know That Was The Day I Decided To Walk Away From Them. Five Years Later, A Cousin’s Wedding Put Us In The Same Room Again — And For The First Time, They Had To Face… On the day I graduated from MIT, the loudest thing in that arena wasn’t the applause. It was the three empty chairs I’d saved in the middle of a sea of cheering families. While other parents stood on tiptoe with phones in the air, wiping a