<p>Pens all the way! except for math. I use mechanical pencils for math.</p>
<p>I feel like pencils are for kids and they look very sloppy and unprofessional AND the smudge.</p>
<p>Pen/Biro. I never use pencils…</p>
<p>Pencils aren’t allowed in the exams I take.</p>
<p>Pens nearly all the time. For the last four years, I’ve not been allowed pens during any time of exams, and so I’ve just gotten in the habit of doing almost every everything in pen. I do some assignments in pencil, and I always use mechanical. I hate regular pencils.</p>
<p>Haha I don’t know what you guys are talkin about…scratching out words with a pen is just as bad if not worse than pencil smudging!</p>
<p>Besides…I rarely had my writing in pencil smudge…Unless you write on recycled paper, write with a lot of pressure, or deliberately wipe sweaty hands across the page, there shouldn’t be any smudging…</p>
<p>I think I have legit OCD about my handwriting and if it’s not as neat or curves upward or downward on an unlined page, I have to write it again, so writing with a pen would just cause me instant fatality…</p>
<p>I used to write with an expensive pentel pencil…but now I write with the cheap Bic ones because they are much lighter and I can write faster with little fatigue :)</p>
<p>Pens because I can write faster with them. If I tried to write fast with my mechanical pencils, the lead just breaks off easily and I don’t own any regular pencils.</p>
<p>They came out with these amazing Pilot FriXion erasable gel pens. They are magnificent. I recommend them to all! :)</p>
<p>Erasable pens. Best thing ever.</p>
<p>Draw diagrams in pencil write in pen. Pilot G2 medium thickness (blue ink) are amazing cheapish pens.</p>
<p>An aircraft aluminum anodized pen will do much more damage in an emergency than a standard wooden pencil or plastic pen. A worthy investment in more than one way! The drawback is the weight for extended writing.</p>
<p>My handwriting is very messy, and I frequently transpose letters when I write fast, so if I didn’t use an erasable and correctable pencil my notes would be completely illegible.</p>
<p>when you have pages of notes written in pencil, you can have the pencil marks that stamps onto the page next to it. I hate mechanical pencils because I keep loosing them, and the cheap ones are squeaky they make my ears bleed. traditional wooden pencils require sharpening every 20 minutes.</p>
<p>Bic pens are the way to go</p>
<p>^^^^Bic Clic Stic is what I use…I never bought a bic clic stic ever in my life…they just show up around my house…usually promotional pens lol</p>
<p>ever since kneadable erasers became a must for me… pencils :)</p>
<p>Pencils, because I get to erase my mistakes when I’m taking notes really fast and I can erase portions later and rewrite them to make them neater, whereas with pen, I’d have to cross stuff out or use white out, and that would just make it a lot messier than it was before I started making corrections.</p>
<p>Pens – better contrast, less smudging, less resistance. I do everything, including math, in pens.</p>
<p>As for neatness: for me, notes are really for the moment. I never review them.</p>