[Jugurtha]

Everything in the post almost exactly matches. The only things that don't match are the fridge and the ashtray.

I was like a scavenger roaming in the dark faculties. The best were Physics and Electrical Engineering faculties, and the labs of few of our Maths Profs (I had the ones who wrote our textbooks for Electricity and I'd press them to give me some stuff they had (usually unpublished for personal use). I had few gems along the way.

I've found a lot of stuff and was often burried in the pile they just put next to the appropriate lab's door. It gave a glimpse on where the labs were coming, what was their focus at a given period, what were they working on, thesis titles, how students prepared them, what did they use to produce it, which languages, etc. These things aren't online or in a database.

I still have most of my stuff from college. There's a bunch of things that are cool(the course in 4th year on Control Theory for example: information that _quickly_ gets you to speed on RST digital controllers, Pontryagin, Bellman is pretty scarce). I wasn't in good terms with the Prof, but boy she had a great course.

So I appreciate what I find looking in those dusty places.