I'm currently a 4th year student at U.C. Berkeley and I've been doing Seti@home off and on since my freshman year. I remember the "good ol' days" when my 200 MHz laptop would return a unit after a hard worked 40 hours. Thankfully that isn't the case any more! One of the things I love about getting a new computer is seeing how much faster I can pump out seti units. Now if I can just convince my boss to let me put it on all our computers at work... =P
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.