pencils

[NilamPatel]

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if a pencil has lead that is .9mm thick is that #2 or does it have to be .5mm?

i know very random question..

 

[Arsenic]

if a pencil has lead that is .9mm thick is that #2 or does it have to be .5mm?

i know very random question..

the whole #2 pencil thing is so that the pencil will make a mark dark enough to be picked up by the scanner, as long as your .9mm pencil makes a dark mark you'll be fine.

 

[jintonic5]

also, sometimes #2 pencils are marked as HB. they're the same thing, just different names.

 

[NilamPatel]

thanks guys...i was hoping to use this pencil my dad got me, which uses .9mm lead


i wouldn't have had the heart to tell him i couldn't his pencil 🙁

 

[adiddas125]

also, sometimes #2 pencils are marked as HB. they're the same thing, just different names.

Remember how Beatrice (Kiddo aka Black Mamba) got her sword from Hatori Hanzo (Kill Bill 1)... Well I treat my mechanical pencil with reverence and respect just like Hanzo and Black Mamba! My pencil is my sword, and I enter battle in 1 week! 🙄 MCAT will be vermon!

 

[NilamPatel]

Remember how Beatrice (Kiddo aka Black Mamba) got her sword from Hatori Hanzo (Kill Bill 1)... Well I treat my mechanical pencil with reverence and respect just like Hanzo and Black Mamba! My pencil is my sword, and I enter battle in 1 week! 🙄 MCAT will be vermon!

wow...it won't be long now before we all cross the line into complete and utter insanity


the smart ones always go first 😉

 

[Arsenic]

That Kaplan pencil that was given to me on test day is now considered my lucky pencil. I know I'm already insane.

i had a friend last year who wanted to use the same pencil I used on my mcat in 2003 so that he could do well..... i have no idea what happened to that pencil, it did its job though and got me into the school i'd wanted to go to since i was in middle school. 😀

i ended up giving him a University of Miami School of Medicine pencil for luck instead.... yes... we are all crazy

 

[NilamPatel]

i used this 4 inch long winnie the pooh pencil for all of orgo last year, got me two A's!! it was the hardest thing trying to write out mechanisms with that thing...

 

[RayhanS1282]

Love the Kill Bill reference. I used my lucky pencil from Orgo II. But it's power only works if you wrap a blue masking tape on the end. The blue macksing tape must be replaced periodically. The pencil so small from 3+ years of use that it's pretty impractical. I only used it to bubble in the answers for the MCAT. I retired it two months ago. It's currently living out its last days in a penciel case with its Ticonderoga cousins.


Pre-meds are a supersitious lot. 😀

 

[jintonic5]

hahaha you guys are so funny 😀

for me, i don't believe in lucky pencils (i have my red sox jersey for luck. i'd like to make a note that since i decided to carry around my jersey with me everywhere the bosox have won their last 5 games). i actually have this weird thing where i make an effort to use up all of my writing utensils. nothing aggravates me more than losing a pen or pencil before i've used it all up. it gives me this weird sense of accomplishment. 🙄

 

[DrBowtie]

#2 refers to the hardness not the width.

But anyways, Who doesn't have a lucky pencil? I call mine Excaliber. It is the only pencil I have had longer than 2 months. It is a bic mechanical that I have refilled numerous times.

 

[mandy_848]

That Kaplan pencil that was given to me on test day is now considered my lucky pencil. I know I'm already insane.

i have a lucky pencil too - you're definitely not alone. it's the only pencil i ever use so all of my knowledge is in it (weird, i know)

about the problems with mechanical pencils in the past - do they not let you use them???

 

[DrBowtie]

These are my lucky testing pants. They intimidate the competition.

 

[NilamPatel]

i actually have this weird thing where i make an effort to use up all of my writing utensils. nothing aggravates me more than losing a pen or pencil before i've used it all up. it gives me this weird sense of accomplishment. 🙄

here i thought i was the only one..i refuse to buy a new pen until i finish the one i have..during one of my finals last year my pen began to run out and i was shaking it and tapping it and looking like an ass the whole time because i couldn't stand the thought of using another one before it was done...i know i have problems..

 

[NilamPatel]

#2 refers to the hardness not the width.

i always wondered what that meant...question #4245984 from my list of things to ask is crossed out.

THANKS!