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"  So this might seem like its just a shameless plug for a band, but in reality my friend Eli is the first person I&amp;#039;ve ever met who knows exactly what he wants to do with his life and is making significant strides to realizing it. To say he&amp;#039;s passionate about music is an understatement. He thinks it and lives it every day - you can barely have a conversation with him that doesn&amp;#039;t include a &amp;quot;hey have you heard this band?&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;this is my favorite chord in this song!&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;so here&amp;#039;s the thing about this instrument&amp;quot;, never mind the constant singing and humming and beat boxing.  Every part of his life here at Skidmore is just another step towards his music career. Whether its jamming in his a-capella group or recording self-written songs, Eli doesn&amp;#039;t take any opportunity to make music for granted. He is in multiple bands (he and his friends from back home have a YouTube account that has over four thousand views! Check it out!) He even created a band with his eleven year old sister called &amp;quot;Smoothies from the Future&amp;quot;! One of his more successful projects is the group he and his friend Gabe created called &amp;quot;Band St. Cool&amp;quot; - they have an entire album out and ready to be listened to (this is the shameless plug part I was talking about earlier). It blows my mind to see someone constantly thinking about what they want to be when they &amp;quot;grow up&amp;quot; - I myself have no idea what I want to do after college. Eli has shown me that doing what you love can be what you make your life about, and it doesn&amp;#039;t have to be that hard to do so. I hope you guys find someone like Eli that you can learn from.  Listen to his band, check out his YouTube videos (Band St. Cool here)! Trust me, its worth it. Take care, talk to you later! xx kels "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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