When sharpening a pencil, do you...

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Steadily rotate the pencil by hand or hold it still while it's being sharpened by an electric sharpener?</p>

<p>I don't use regular pencils often, but when I do (AP exam time), I always return to my old habit of twisting the pencil inside the sharpener. Not sure why, but I can't help but do it. Anyone else do this?</p>

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<p>Steadily rotate the pencil.</p>

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<p>I honestly don’t know.</p>

<p><em>goes and gets a pencil; sharpens pencil</em></p>

<p>Hold it still.</p>

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<p>Yup.</p>

<p>With the old pencil sharpeners, if you didn’t rotate the pencil it would sharpen unevenly, and one side would have that layer of wood over it while the other didn’t, which was annoying.</p>

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<p>Why were electric sharpeners even invented? That’s like an electric shoe lace tier</p>

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<p>^And they’re so damn noisy too. </p>

<p>I have a grudge against mechanical pencil sharpeners. During state testing, it wouldn’t properly sharpen my pencil and the tip kept breaking. It got down to about 2 inches before it finally worked.</p>

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<p>Exactly. And my parents wonder why I rotate the pencil.</p>

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<p>People still use pencils?</p>

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<p>^Standardized testing. AP, SAT, state testing, etc.</p>

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<p>Pencils > Pens</p>

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<p>Pens > Pencils.</p>

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<p>CC > Porn</p>

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<p>Pens > Pencils</p>

<p>Pencils are for people who make mistakes and * need * erasers.</p>

<p>* just kidding :] *</p>

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<p>I honestly can’t remember the last time I used a non-mechanical pencil, but I always would use electric pencil sharpeners. Those things really were loud.</p>

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<p>I use a mechanical pencil all of the time</p>

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<p>And Pens are for people who uh for PEOPLE WHO HATE PENCILS. [noparse]:mad:[/noparse]</p>

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<p>Any preference of pencil or pen while test taking? Brand perhaps?</p>

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<p>Mechanical pencil. I have no idea why the College Board has started forbidding them.</p>

<p>When I use a normal pencil, I hold it still as I sharpen.</p>

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<p>^College board has started forbidding them?!?!?</p>