Dirm Luawo is currently a senior at Parsons School of Design. He is also a mentor for the Parsons Scholars Program which he used to be a past student. Dirm has been in the Parsons community for almost six years now and that brings me back to the first time I met him five years ago at the Parsons Summer Program. He was the first Indonesian-American I met in New York and so it was a really interesting and insightful talk about the life of a mixed-culture kid living in America and how that had shaped his thesis project. Talking to Dirm also taught me how a thesis project can be a self-critique of our identities.