As a child, Eli once expressed an interest in being a vet, but apparently gave this up after his father stepped on a hamster that his mother had brought him to teach him responsibility when Eli left the cage door open, leaving him doubting his ability to cope with that kind of responsibility. When Eli was fourteen years old his mother, Marian Wallace, contracted HIV working as a nurse, when she was trying to restrain a drug addict. His father, who could not deal with the stress, left both of them behind. From then on Eli's mother took sole responsibility for raising her son until the point where he left to study at MIT. Unfortunately, Eli dropped out and did not receive his degree. Prior to his dealings with the United States Air Force, Eli was unemployed and spent a large amount of time p