Expedience

So I'm none too pleased about not being able to hand-write our assignments.  However I'm appeasing myself with the justification that it's about time I learned how to write LaTeX anyways.  Another upside is the white-out to be saved.  Hooray, saved white-out!

I was going to do a live-blog (slog?) titled "Adventures in LaTeX" about downloading, understand and using the LyX editor, but with Thanksgiving weekend fast approaching and no spare time on the horizon I'm resigning myself to struggling through MS Word for this assignment.  Understanding LyX and the WYSIWYM paradigm will simply have to wait until A2.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed I'm not doing myself a disfavour here! Hopefully I'll be able to express myself symbolically in Word without too much hassle. I'm open to the possibility that the finicky nature of Word's typesetting functions will actually cost me more time, but I'll risk it.

As a point of interest, this particular criterion of the assignment (no hand-written work) has given me a new article idea. If any of you, dear readers, are members of New College watch out for an opinion piece in issue 3 of The Window --which should be out November 1st--  about how the prevalence and availability of technology is impacting our learning experience. I'll probably also throw something in there about the student right to submit hand-written assignments as stated by UTSU vs. the advantages of early adoption (though LaTeX isn't exactly new at this point in the game....) and how the standpoints should and do vary according to discipline. Thanks, CSC236, for an article!

Now, to go plow through a field of superscript corrections...