<p>only for the SATs but you can still get away with it if you prove #2 lead</p>
<p>No, I quickly rotate it</p>
<p>Slowly rotate.</p>
<p>Has anyone cut their pencil with a knife…I needed my pencil sharpened and my friend (outside of school or any federal buildings) took out her pocket knife (totally didn’t know she would have one b/c she’s not the type to have one) and sharpened it for me…</p>
<p>I slowly rotate. But sometime it can take me ages to sharpen a pencil proper;ly…one side isn’t done or the lead falls out…</p>
<p>I HATE using pencils (unless if it’s mechanical) IMO i just find writing in pencils makes my work/anyone else’s in general…look sloppy</p>
<p>Pens ftw! They look so much more neater & professional…</p>
<p>There are pens that come w/ erasers now 
but i don’t buy them since i dont make frequent trips to office max…i just use whatever laying around. :p…but the pens i normally use run out so fast…</p>
<p>I think I’m just going to use a mechanical pencil for my next SAT. I can’t handle normal pencils. And I kind of hold the pencil inside the electric sharpener and let it rotate on my hand. I used to get eraser burn all the time :</p>
<p>If it’s the kind of pencil sharpener that’s connected to the wall and you turn the little crank, I always scrape my knuckles on the wall and end up bleeding.</p>
<p>^ That sounds painful.</p>
<p>I hold it steady both in electric or manual. Sharpens better that way, because you don’t get stuck with one wood side and one lead side… which I <em>hate</em>.</p>
<p>I don’t really use pencils though. Even in math, I use a pen.</p>
<p>i hold it steady in electric, twist it in mechanical.</p>
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<p>Usually, I just use the Ticonderoga pencils for exams. For pens, I like to use a micro uni-ball signo 207 ;)</p>
<p>It’s unusual to rotate the pencil in a mechanical sharpener? Ah well, more proof that I’m oldskool in addition to the fact that my family owns a house phone (…most people don’t have house phones??) D: :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I twist in electric.</p>
<p>^^ vertigo: really? what i mean by mechanical sharpener is handheld i guess. sorry for the confusion!</p>
<p>Hold pencil still. electric sharperners are the best! Minimal effort required.</p>
<p>Ticonderoga pencils are the only pencils I use that aren’t mechanical.</p>
<p>Ticonderoga! We ran out of mechanical pencils in March, and we have a 48 pack of Ticonderogas, so… I prefer mechanical, but I suppose I will wait until August. </p>
<p>And I sharpen my pencil by rotation, or else the pencil gets all wonky.</p>
<p>@ vertigo: I’m 99 percent sure that most families still have phones. It’s singles and young DINKs and mostly people who don’t have houses yet who live with only cell phones. As for being behind the times, all the phones in my house have cords. My 60 something father doesn’t trust the cordless models.</p>
<p>^We have a home phone system too, but it’s wireless, so we always lose the handsets lol</p>
<p>My government teacher was going on and on about how the elderly own the majority of house phones now in America… He was talking about the discrepancies in polling so I’d assume he was getting at the fact that Gallup takes polls midday and how that skews results for working adults more so than the ownership of home phones. He tends to rant, however, so perhaps I misinterpreted.
And ohhh. Mechanical = hand-operated. I get that. I still twist for electrical though. :p</p>