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Remember Shawn Hagan, the former South Central College student in computer-integrated machining?

He's got a diploma in that field from the college, but is actually back at South Central -- this time to earn an associate's degree. He wants to go on to study operations management in a joint program run by the college and 

This 23-year-old is a work horse. Like many here, he works full time while pursuing his degree, taking 20 hours of classes a week.

He gets up about 6:45 a.m., goes to school from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. -- studying between classes, of course -- and then hits the 3 p.m.-to-midnight shift at Perfecseal in Mankato, which produces medical packaging.

And he's a musician on the side, telling me:

Here's the most interesting part: He wants to design and produce custom guitars using the very stuff he learned at South Central.

He has produced the video above, which shows off both his playing skills and a guitar that he has made himself. It even shows snippets of the manufacturing process.

So far he has made two, and shrugs off any weariness his heavy schedule of two years must have given him.

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Remember Shawn Hagan, the former South Central College student in computer-integrated machining? He’s got a diploma in that field from the college, but is actually back at South Central — this time to earn an associate’s degree. He wants to go on to study operations management in a joint program run by the college and…

Video: South Central machining? Yeah — custom guitars.

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