LaTeX is Beautiful

I started using LaTeX for a few of my classes this semester, particularly because they were offering extra credit. But now that I've learned it, I've fallen in love, and am ready to apply it to more scenarios.

So what is LaTeX? Well, it's a markup language, similar to what you might be used to for editing wikis and such. But, it's more robust, and very capable for mathematical or scientific articles. I've only scratched the surface so far, but it can automatically keep track of references throughout your paper, for automatic numbering as well as bibliographies. Also, it is very clean in the way it lays out math. And the biggest reason to use it, is that it's cross-platform, and it'll always look the same, no matter where it's rendered. You can't say that about Word documents.

So, if you're in school now, or you're ever planning on going to grad. school for engineering, I recommend learning LaTeX-- it'll make you life easier in the long run. I'm sure it would overkill for a high-school math class, but I bet your teacher would be impressed.