I love understanding what's going on underneath the hood. In fact, one of my memorable classes was computer organization, when I had to implement merge sort usi

I love understanding what's going on underneath the hood. In fact, one of my memorable classes was computer organization, when I had to implement merge sort using mips; similarly, another favorite course of mine was security, where we had to inject a buffer overflow using nop sledding, a project requiring an understanding of calling conventions etc. All that being said, although my intellectual curiosity drives me in this lower level programming direction, I find little use of it on the day-to-day job. Only on very rare occasions have I had to disassemble the code