Possibly dumb questions about pens and pencils

[greg123]

i got all my stationaries from work :P

amen, i love the government

[Sgt_Strider]

If you are taking university lectures, it is very important to have good pens. Not necessarily expensive, but good pens.

"Good" means:

1. Dries quickly, so you're not smudging your notes all over your hands and the page.

2. Ergonomic / easy on your hand, so you can sit there and write for hours of lectures each day.

3. Fine point. Especially important for engieering / math people because you are drawing all kinds of diagrams and equations. It's much harder to do this with a thick point.

4. Reliable, smooth ink flow. You don't want to be correcting your pen's mistakes as the lecture goes on.

My recommendation is the Piolet G-TEC C4 pen, available for $2.99 a piece at Staples. Dries fast. Extremely fine tip. Reliable. Looks really plain but doesn't tire out your hand. Sure, some people would balk at spending three dollars for ONE pen, but believe me, it is majorly worth it. I would never want to go back to cheapie pens.

Yea, I want a fine tip pen. The problem with the Uniball pens is that the ink doesn't dry fast and I end up smudging everything on my paper. I need such pen because they don't allow me to use pencils for Chinese final exam. I can't write chinese characters properly with the regular pens.