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    buddyman reacted to TakeruK in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    This is interesting and I might have had a weird experience, but it was the opposite for me. My very first University physics course was taught by a very inspiring retired professor and he absolutely insisted that we complete our homework in pen, for the same reason you say here. We were expected to, after some initial scratchwork, to turn in everything we wrote, so as we write up the homework solution, if we found that we made a mistake (oops, missed that factor of 2 there!), we were to just cross out the wrong values and rewrite them. The incentive was that if we were originally right (oh yeah, that factor of 2 isn't supposed to be there since we're considering emission from both sides of the sphere), we would still get full points.
     
    In hindsight, although more points was the incentive, the true motivation behind this policy, I think, was to get us to think like experimental physicists. The professor was one of the frontier experimental particle physicists in Canada so he was probably training all of us to be experimentalists! However, that course had a huge influence on me (I can honestly say it was the single biggest reason for me to be a Physics degree) and so I used pen for my physics and math homework for quite awhile afterwards. 
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    buddyman reacted to GeoDUDE! in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    Has anyone found cheap dot graphed ruled notebooks? It seems they are only found in expensive moleskin like notebooks and i just want a 1-3 dollar per notebook. 
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    buddyman reacted to GeoDUDE! in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    I use a rotring 800 drafting pencil for almost everything 
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    buddyman reacted to Lifesaver in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    My parents collect "writing instruments," so I have been given a few really nice pens for various graduations. I have two Cross pens and a Mont Blanc pen. I have one of each, ballpoint, rollerball, and fountain. I use the rollerball most often, but I am quite a fan of all three of them.

    As far as cheap pens go, I too like the RSVP pens.
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    buddyman reacted to perpetuavix in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    I will definitely second the recommendation for Pentels RSVP pens; the ones with the caps are better than the clicky ones, but both are awesome. 
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    buddyman reacted to TakeruK in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    Free pens are my favourite pens! 
     
    But more seriously, I don't have specific brand types that I prefer. I do enjoy writing with a rollerball pen more than a ballpoint pen. So, when I have to grade papers (although I generally enjoy teaching and providing feedback, grading is still really tedious!), I make it less of a chore by going out and buying a rollerball pen in some fun colour (usually green or purple since I don't like grading in red and most people write in blue or black).
     
    I do my homework and write in my lab notebook with whatever pen I can find at the moment though, usually a free ballpoint pen from some event or other. Once in awhile, I do have to stock up basic pens and I usually go with "papermate" since it's cheap.
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    buddyman reacted to ProfMoriarty in Pens/Pencils which brands do you prefer?   
    Lamy fountain pens
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