I'm a 2nd year at the University of Hull studying Computer Science. I have my computers running all the time and a friend who runs BOINC@HULL got me to donate their spare idle time to the BOINC project.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
SETI seems an interesting project to be involved with and who knows, maybe their is life out there.
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.