to make my cv, to give educational information in a table with box box, I have used this
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[help lines] (-5,0) grid (4,4);
\end{tikzpicture}
and got 
but I want to write my university name marks etc etc inside those boxes and I want to make bit wider boxes, I want proper latex commands for such table .. thank you for helping.
tabularenvironment. – Peter Grill Jan 23 '14 at 05:20booktabspackage . You probably want something like\begin{tabular}{ l l }\toprule University & Years \\ \cmidrule{1-1} Stanford University & 1990-1994 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular}. – Peter Grill Jan 23 '14 at 05:33