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Dec. 18th, 2004 03:22 amI am now almost done. Both lab reports are in. I'm glad I took the time to learn the basics of LyX; now ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blaketh recommends that I move on to full, hard-core LaTeX now. I don't know; I'm definitely glad for the capabilies of LyX and not having to memorize every single formatting command. I will certainly use it more next semester as Cheryl Grood wants algebra seminar presentations as typed handouts. It's sort of interesting how for seminar presentations, math is doing handouts, and how physics with our class has moved away from handouts while the current seniors used them all the time last year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think math seminar presentations mostly focus on the exposition and proof of some important theorem and any associated lemmas or corollaries.
I am not thrilled about the prospect of SEPTA fare hikes and service cuts. It is time-consuming enough for me to try to get home by SEPTA on weekends even now. What I may consider trying at some point is only using the R3 to get into Center City, transfering to a PATCO train into Camden, and then changing from there to the NJ Transit River Line to get to Trenton. As it stands SEPTA is faster, but that may change if the weekend service cuts are sufficiently drastic. Already a round-trip ticket from Trenton to Swat on SEPTA costs me $14. If the fare hikes are around 25%, that could go up by $3. That plus the cost of NJT up to Princeton Junction may make trips home, especially next summer when I'll definitely be at Swat, that much more costly. Ditto for coming back to Swat for fire school classes and evolutions over Spring Break if I take FF1 next semester. According to the local NBC 10 news for Philadelphia (thanks tonightengalesknd for pointing me to it), the situation is also bad in Pittsburgh.
( Scandal back home )
blaketh recommends that I move on to full, hard-core LaTeX now. I don't know; I'm definitely glad for the capabilies of LyX and not having to memorize every single formatting command. I will certainly use it more next semester as Cheryl Grood wants algebra seminar presentations as typed handouts. It's sort of interesting how for seminar presentations, math is doing handouts, and how physics with our class has moved away from handouts while the current seniors used them all the time last year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think math seminar presentations mostly focus on the exposition and proof of some important theorem and any associated lemmas or corollaries.I am not thrilled about the prospect of SEPTA fare hikes and service cuts. It is time-consuming enough for me to try to get home by SEPTA on weekends even now. What I may consider trying at some point is only using the R3 to get into Center City, transfering to a PATCO train into Camden, and then changing from there to the NJ Transit River Line to get to Trenton. As it stands SEPTA is faster, but that may change if the weekend service cuts are sufficiently drastic. Already a round-trip ticket from Trenton to Swat on SEPTA costs me $14. If the fare hikes are around 25%, that could go up by $3. That plus the cost of NJT up to Princeton Junction may make trips home, especially next summer when I'll definitely be at Swat, that much more costly. Ditto for coming back to Swat for fire school classes and evolutions over Spring Break if I take FF1 next semester. According to the local NBC 10 news for Philadelphia (thanks to
nightengalesknd for pointing me to it), the situation is also bad in Pittsburgh.( Scandal back home )
