: About Me

I am a sophomore undergraduate at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. I am of undecided major, but currently considering cognitive science, medical ethics, and secondary education.

I am the author of two books, one self-published and the other currently seeking publication; I also run a small independent tutoring company (for K through undergrad) called Lightspeed Learning.

My interests are wide-ranging, including physics, philosophy, painting, photography, and poetry-and that's just within the letter "p." I am an atheist activist, and the President of the University of Michigan's chapter of the Secular Student Alliance.

Computers & Technology > Software (Other) Defining TeX document editor

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TeX is actually a whole class of programs in various distributions, designed for quite literally any operating system on the market (including obscure Linux distributions!); its primary purpose is in typesetting words and equations, and it is in wide use among scientists and mathematicians. The basic idea of TeX is that a keyboard can be used to enter commands representing the purpose of the formatting, and then the computer can figure out from that what formatting to use in the typesetting. For instance: On Microsoft Word, you might create a section heading by typing "Section 8: Schroding...

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