I am an Electrical Engineering student and, as such, very boring.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think SET@home is an interesting project. I don't know if ET life exists, or if is advanced enough to transmit signals for us, but I wouldn't want to be left out if there was.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.