Tomorrow is my first day of my first year of university. I‘m both excited and nervous. Today I went shopping for school supplies. Notebooks, pens, that sort of thing.
I have two math classes, so I’ll be doing a lot of pencil work. I love wooden pencils and have eschewed their mechanical counterparts up until now. However, since the spacial organization of lecture-style seating makes pencil sharpening more of an Olympic sport than useful utility, I‘ve decided to make the leap to mechanical pencils. But, being who I am, I couldn’t just stop there. Oh no. It’s never that simple. 
Wal-Mart presented me with a good, but not dazzling, selection of pencils from which to choose. Being a last minute vulture meant I only had the leftovers, but they still presented me with a poser. Firstly, mechanical pencils come in different diameters of lead! So naturally I had to buy one type of pencil that uses 0.7 mm lead and one that uses 0.5 mm lead in order to compare the two. 
Secondly, if I‘m going to be using the same pencil for hours a day, I want one that’s comfortable; I ignored the cheaper mechanical pencils and went for two brands that came with grips. The 0.7 one is thinner; the 0.5 one is thicker and has a more durable grip.
So to summarize: yes, I bought two different types of mechanical pencils in order to analyse how I like them and decide which one I prefer based on lead diameter and grip comfort. Go me.
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My $1.00 bic 10 pack has been doing me well, but I still use black ticonderogas too. I don’t know if the university is any differnet when in Canada, but I think you’ll find that there is acutally minimal writing in math class. Unless you‘re one of those obsessive kids who write down everything a professor says.
For the most part, in math especially there are examples in the book so I usually just take down ideas and go back to the book later as I study, pluss you’ll probably know alot at the beginning of the semester. I figure, I paid 100 dollars for the book, might as well use it to it’s full potential.
Friday, September 7, 2007 at 10:25 PM