I was the sole user of LaTeX in my class of M.S.E.E. students in grad school. It was like a well-kept secret; someone years ago had written the thesis template

I was the sole user of LaTeX in my class of M.S.E.E. students in grad school. It was like a well-kept secret; someone years ago had written the thesis template for an older version of LaTeX. Because my thesis included a number of mathematical formulas and equations and I hated the MS Word formula editor, and because my thesis advisor used LaTeX to write exams and had a few books on it, I chose to do my thesis in LaTeX instead of Word. This meant updating the old template to work with a modern version of LaTeX, which took me about a week. After that it was pretty smooth sailing, and when I found I could include encapsulated Postscript output directly from GnuPlot for graphs, I was very happy. The output looked much better than anything Word would have produced. So my thesis advisor has a copy of the source code to my thesis for the next person who comes along and wants to use LaTeX. I wonder how long that will be...