Student advice: Always carry a pen on you
September 7th, 2006. Filed under: ArticlesI have a piece of advice for all students, which applies mostly to college or university students. Always have a pen on you, unless you’re at home. I notice that sometimes people don’t have one with them when they needed it. They did not foresee the need for one before stepping out of the house, but anything can happen. I’m currently projecting this to students, though it may also apply to others.
Let’s say you go to school/college and you carry your books, paperwork, stationery, etc. in a bag. Suddenly you need to write something down, for any reason at all. How long will it take to get that one pen from inside your bag? If you use a pencilcase, I’d say around five seconds. Sure, five seconds is nothing but both your bag and pencilcase will be wide open. And it will take another five seconds to put it back.
No need for all that hassle. Put a working pen on your any of your pockets. Guys, you will definitely have pockets. If you don’t, please come back to Earth. Gals, if you don’t have pockets, I assume you wear fancy whatnots to class? I wouldn’t want to question your fashion sense but we’re talking about college here. Nah, I shan’t touch on that. Do as you please.
So far, I can think of the following situations in which having a pen on you will benefit you.
- Some dude passes out surveys and you are sympathetic about it
- You spot a petition requesting your hated teacher to be sacked
- A hot chick/hunk is about to tell you her/his e-mail address
- You spot Wang Li Hom walking down the street
- Your best friend asks to borrow a pen from you
- Your worst enemy falls asleep on a seat near yours
- In your bathroom walls, there is a message board going on
- You wanna impress people with your sudoku skills
- A mosquito flew inside your ear
- You flip the newspaper and you found Mawi’s picture
Bah, you get the idea. This is all about efficiency, which is good for many other reasons such as boosting your reliability, etc. Get one pen and stick with it, eventually you don’t need all those colorful gel pens and of the sort. It’s a small price to pay for the countless five seconds you will save.
Before you leave your house: hair, zipper, breath mint, phone, wallet, pen.
VERY GOOD and VALID point there. I always find it “funny” that there are students who come to class without bringing any pen / pencil and then need to “borrow” from others. And they do that EVERY time they come to class. *pengsan*
hanyi
September 7th, 2006 at 6:27 amThank you… Perhaps you should enlighten those students of their error. Hehe
Justin Wong
September 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pmCool piece of advice! It sure is useful to have a pen around you.
Steph
September 7th, 2006 at 7:41 pm- Some dude passes out surveys and you are sympathetic about it
> If they couldn’t even bother to provide a pen, shows they aren’t serious about the surveys and I couldn’t even be bothered doing it either.
- You spot a petition requesting your hated teacher to be sacked
> Aww, you should know petition ain’t gonna work in this day and time.
- A hot chick/hunk is about to tell you her/his e-mail address
> I believe my trusty smart phone can handle it. That or my audio player cum voice recorder.
- You spot Wang Li Hom walking down the street
> Li who? lol, just kidding, I’d rather had him taken with my phone’s cam. Besides, it looks better than a piece of writing on a paper.
- Your best friend asks to borrow a pen from you
> Tough luck, lol.
- Your worst enemy falls asleep on a seat near yours
> He better pray he has live insurance. But seriously, I don’t kick people when they are down. Mano-a-mano is my style.
- In your bathroom walls, there is a message board going on
> Sigh, when are we going to have people with first world mentality…
- You wanna impress people with your sudoku skills
> *Ehem*, covertly pop my smart phone, run some soduku generator and voila, speak out the answer as if I figured out the answer using my uber mental calculation. That ought to impress passerby.
- A mosquito flew inside your ear
> Trust me, you don’t want to shove a pen inside your ear.
- You flip the newspaper and you found Mawi?s picture
> Nah, I’m too matured to do that.
Ahhh, gotta love the 21st century.
anonymousdoesnotforgives
September 7th, 2006 at 9:17 pmHahaha…. thanks for your responses to my situations. But my point still stands, regardless of how insignificant the results might be. Enjoy.
Justin Wong
September 7th, 2006 at 9:57 pmAgree with that
~TheAngel~
September 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pmGood idea!
Donald Douglas
September 9th, 2006 at 1:49 amI’ve loaned out so many pens during my college career so far (I’m a junior) I should start charging.
Sera
September 10th, 2006 at 6:47 amgood advice!
nate james
September 11th, 2006 at 11:37 pmi usually have oe of those G2s with me, cuz it doesn’;t leak (retractable), easy snap to use (handy if your hands are full and can afford only one hand), has clip (ok on shirts and jeans), is thick inked (uses less strength to squeeze out ink)…
cons: is expensive, is only in blue/black/red, sometimes pokes groin when you sit down with it i your jeans… :p
Gray
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