Bede Liu went through 5 elementary schools and 7 middle schools (names upon request) before settling down at the Taiwan University, where he lasted full four years. He didn't quite make the University's varsity swimming team. He was, however, a member of the BTU-U team-of-four that took the championship at the First Taipei Open Bridge Tournament. He also assisted the late Rev. Father Fang How, a noted history professor (on Song Dynasty), in celebrating the daily Mass at 6:30 a.m. on alternating weeks. He did graduate work at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, under several of the world's greatest EE professors, and collected two degrees there. He and his father received their masters degree at the same commencement, a first in Poly's history. He was then hired by Bell Laboratories. For three years, he did very little, including what a Member of Technical Staff should be doing. So he joined the faculty of Princeton University, and did his share of teaching, publishing, and giving talks. He has many good friends in the Circuits and Systems Society, the Signal Processing Society, and the Information Theory Society of IEEE. He was elected to the IEEE Board of Directors at its centennial year, representing one of the ten Technical Divisions, which meant, among other things, to attend many long meetings during those two years: at least four times a year, and each lasting one week. Over the years, his students dragged him, kicking and screaming, through various fields of research and forced him to learn with them. He was recently promoted to the Most Senior Member of his department at Princeton where he is looking forward to many more years of being bullied by his students and colleagues.