<p>Uni-Ball Vision 0.7mm FTW. It’s nearly identical to printer ink when it’s dried. It’s the shyt.</p>
<p>Also, 0.5mm is the way to go for mechanical pencils. I write small, and 0.7mm just doesn’t cut it. Paper-Mate ClearPoints are by far the best, but right now I have several boxes of Bic standard ones since I keep on losing them.</p>
<p>As far as erasers go, the Pentel Hi-Polymer is amazing. By far the greatest eraser in the world.</p>
<p>I have a compulsion for pocketing mechanical pencils, so I have a huge number of them on my shelf where I empty my pockets at night. Every so often my family recovers one or two.</p>
<p>And BTW, the test instructions are a lie. I used a mechanical pencil on all my AP exams and nothing bad happened.</p>
<p>I equally enjoy using wooden pencils or mechanicals but I happen to have more wooden pencils. I switched from using pencil to pen last year and now I almost always use black/blue pen.</p>
<p>I just use whatever I can borrow from the people sitting around me, which mostly ends up being the crappy pencil with no eraser someone meant to throw away but missed the trashcan and then got stuck in between the wall and the cabinet the rest of the semester collecting dust and pencil shavings from the hand-cranked pencil shaver that is broken more often than not and besides no one really likes to use it because the little ridges on the so called grip kind of sting your hand when you push on them too hard and you always have to push too hard because if you don’t your pencil will probably not sharpen and end up breaking over and over and over again until it becomes a little stub with no eraser that you threw towards the trash can but overshot and landed it behind the cabinet but little did you know that one day semesters later there would be a kid who had to use <em>that</em> crappy old pencil because the girl that he sits next to won’t let him borrow any more of her nice mechanical pencils because he accidentally lost them, but that’s a long story so I won’t go into that right now.</p>