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First, your Math 213 professor wants you to do all the problem sets in TeX, because, according to her, TeX makes equations look lovely. Then, you catch the secretaries in William James Hall typing up memos seeking student volunteers for experimental studies--in TeX...
...just as you are about to sit down and enjoy your sweet and sour pork in Adams dining hall, your roommate runs in and shows off his just-completed 30-page term paper--replete with all the necessary tables of data. "I did this on TeX!" he exclaims...
...TeX may not yet be that ubiquitous, and may never be on everyone's computer, but it is given away free to anyone interested, and has a large following among your professors and teaching fellows...
...case you are still wondering, TeX (pronounced Tek) is a document typesetting program, much like such more familiar names as PageMaker and QuarkXPress...
...With TeX, however, you get both the DTP and a word processor. In fact, the two are so integrated that you'd never even think in terms of writing and typesetting separately any more. You will simply write and format at once...