That's because the average person so acquaints themselves with pencil in fear of a mistake that when forced to use a pen, they're afraid of making mistakes, which in turn will cause them to make more mistakes than when they were using a pencil, hence the working harder.
Same. I hate the rolling ball ones that my father uses. They smell really bad (cuz he takes the free ones from the hotels), half of them dry up, and they smear.
I'll say that the biggest problem I have with any writing utility is the smearing, and this happens 75% of the time I use a pencil, and within two weeks. Within two months, 95% of the notes I write are smeared.
You remind me of my sister, who loves the smell of new books at Borders or Barnes and Nobles.
They suck bad. They're even worse than the hotel pens and that's pretty bad. Might as well use a pencil.
My work is neater than the average person-in-my-class's. Even with some cross-outs, as long as you organize your calculations are organized, it looks neat.
Haha, I collect fountain pens too, but I haven't spent nearly as much. =/
You don't scribble it out. You cross it out, in an orderly fashion, like, maybe one or two lines through it. That way, you know it's crossed-out, but you can still see it. I organized my steps from top to bottom, so crossing out one line wouldn't make much of a difference in the "neatness".
White out is horrible indeed. I hate the smell of that stuff, and the tape can be easily peeled off. Just crossing it out is more efficient. In fact, if I time myself, I am actually faster on homework with a pen than a pencil because should I make my mistake (which above, I mentioned that I did so more often with a pencil because of the mindset that any mistake is correctable), I don't have to pick up an eraser, erase the mistake, put down the eraser, then pick up my pencil and continue to write. I can just cross it out and continue.
LoL. I haven't used cursive since sixth grade. The only cursive I use is for my signature.
Not in Pre-Calc, where pretty much all the calculations are simple. Actually, even in a complex problem (which I've had a few), it's not as bad as you think, because of the way I organize my work. Yes, I know in higher-than-highschool-math, I will be doing those kinds of calculations, but then again, as I said, by using a separate row for every calculation and then continuing with another column, I can just cross out one row should I screw up and continue below it. If I happen to screw up in between, easy, start over with a different sheet of paper. Usually, I have a scratch paper anyways.
Again, I organize my steps in such a way that crossing it out would not make the paper look ugly. O_o
Also, I don't make arbitrary marks at all.
Pencil always smears in the end, no matter whether or not they smear initially. If I use a pencil, (and I'm very anal about this), I will SELECT a pencil that doesn't smear to anything but a high degree of sweat (and I don't sweat much). However, even with these pencils, when in my binder for one or two months, usually, a strange phenomenon occurs. I notice the graphite becomes migratory or reproductive or what not and spreads itself across the paper and I pretty much can't recognize it anymore. =/
Also, while you say good pens can be stolen too, they're stolen less often than good pencils. No idea why.
Aren't those the Pilot pens that say "Doesn't leak in flight" on the side of them? Because if so, I have a few of them and they don't leak at all.
Who said you had to write cursive when you write in pen? O_o
You obviously haven't used a good pen. Like pencils, there's crappy pens that smear and good ones that don't.
What the hell?
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