College students, do you take notes with a pencil or pen?

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I’ve always used pencil, mechanical-type 0.5mm. I did the same throughout HS too. I don’t know why, but I develop an affinity for my writing tool. I used the same blue SumoGrip mechanical pencil throughout all of HS, and I’ve used the same TUL one for college, even now as a senior, and even though I bought a pack of 2 of them I’ve only ever used the one I started with. Call me superstitious I guess - it’s the one constant no matter what subject, classroom, professor, etc. I never really thought about it, but I now realized that eventually for my major I’d likely be forced to use pencil for drawing graphs and stuff (economics).

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Pen. Can’t stand the feeling of pencil writing. Only time I use pencils are during exams, when required.

Otherwise, pen. All day, every day.

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Pencil, usually mechanical. You can write with the same speed as a pen but it doesn’t smudge and can erase if you mess up

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Always pencil, I’m a math and CS major. It’s much easier to correct mistakes if you write in pencil. For the STEM classes at my school, some professors refuse to grade handwritten assignments (HW, tests, quizzes) if they are written in pen. The only exceptions are in-lab notes for the hard sciences, where people want to see your mistakes and changes. So writing in pencil is a good habit to get into.

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Pen, as a STEM major. Have had 0 issues. Can’t stand pencil.

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Pen because I write much faster with it
-Math + CS major

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Pencil. Always pencil. I’m a physics/math double major.

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Pen. I don’t like rereading notes written in pencil.

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Depends on my mood, semester and class. I usually use pen for notes and pencil for scratch work (for math and CS homework problems). I’m a plain old CS major.

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Pen because it’s easier.

I never read my notes anyways because my handwriting is terrible when I’m trying to pay attention to the lecture while also writing. But writing helps me solidify the material in my head however. (Anyhow Senior year of High School I stopped taking notes due to Senioritis but still did really well anyways so…)

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For Math/Physics/Chemistry- things requiring calculations- Pencil. Everything else- Pen.

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Pencil, as a STEM major. Easy to correct mistakes. I use a pencil in non-STEM classes to, for the same reason and for consistency.