<p>actually yeah, ditch the pencils go for pens. better yet. ERASABLE pens. oh man.</p>
<p>Handsdown funniest thread on CL :p</p>
<p>No, pens are no good. What if I am walking to one of my classes, and I trip over a brick and fall on my side? A pencil will not poke me nearly as bad because the tip can break off, but a pen will continue in its erect position straight into my leg. The last thing I want to do is go to the hospital with a pen stuck in the side of my leg. So, I think I will stick with pencils, but pens are a novel idea that I encourage some more adventurous posters to try.</p>
<p>I have an update on the refrigerator/bed situation: I ended up getting the full mattress, but it was MUCH bigger than I expect. Everytime I try and rest on my bed I roll right off because half of the mattress isn’t supported by the refrigerator. So instead of cutting it with a hacksaw (I might get a bigger refrigerator later), I tried to fold it in half and tie it together with rope. It doesn’t fold very well, but I have lots of rope on it! LOL. Not very comfortable either, but I can’t take the mattress back since I took the tags off of it and slept on it.</p>
<p>My suggestion would be to get a second refrigerator. You can situate your bed in the center of the room so that both refrigerators are accessible. This way, your entire bed is supported and you have double the storage capacity.</p>
<p>“If you really want to be safe, get a chisel and a bunch of slates of rock. It’ll remind your professors of when they were in college.”</p>
<p>LOL…this thread is great</p>
<p>Rope? Why not try some duct tape along with that for added support. What if it unfolds and squishes you against the floor or wall or something?</p>
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LOL, but please don’t start a uc<em>benz appreciation thread! 
(No offense to you, uc</em>benz!)</p>
<p>Argh, adconard! I hate you now! I kept trying to wrap the mattress in duct tape, and I got it stuck all over my arm! I had to have my little brother rip it off for me, and it took all of the hair off. Now I only have one arm with hair on it. Thanks a lot! </p>
<p>After I got done smothering my hairless arm in Neosporin I went out to my garage, and found some fishing line. Fishing line really rocks my world because when people come into my room they won’t see it wrapped around the mattress. All they will see is a nice mattress folded in half on top of a big refrigerator. Hehe 
I’m excited!</p>
<p>Heh, you probably got an A for creative writing.</p>
<p>Seahorse, the second refrigerator idea is pure genius.</p>
<p>Ok though the 2 fridge idea is great… 6 would be better, one for each meal obviously! Breakfast, lunch, dinner, 2nd dinner, snacks, and more snacks.</p>
<p>And UC, you forgot something…What kind of laptop to bring. Be sure to create 80 different posts asking which specs are the best though or you’ll fail within the first week.</p>
<p>It’s not the color of the pencil you should be worried about - it’s the number. Everyone knows that #2 pencils are for little high school kiddies. If you don’t want to instantly become the laughingstock and/or village idiot and/or other-embarassing-yet-suitable-metaphor of your college campus, you should know that we’re only using #.7987 or #.4890001 pencils, depending upon your location. Seriously - college scantron machines instantly reject and set fire to exams where any other pencil varieties are used.</p>
<p>Pencils aside, what you really ought to look into are those badass gel pens. You know, the ones you used in 7th grade that came in a plethora of colors? They’re making a comeback. What better way to show your T.A. you’ve got the hots for him than to cleverly write so on your hand in falls latest colors? I’m telling you - they’ll get you laid.</p>
<p>UC–I would suggest that you buy one pack of every color pencil you can find.</p>
<p>Also, Sookunfyooz, has the right idea about the laptop. You will have to type some assignments–especially essays and research papers for those freshie English classes. Make sure you get a printer and get the right name brand cartridge. Your professor will be able to tell which brand of cartridge you use–don’t want to fail because you chose the wrong kind for printing out those papers!! Best bet is to buy all of them and test them before going off to college. Look for the best ink quality.</p>
<p>Wait a minute, if one uses a mechanical pencil, does it matter what size of lead to use. Is 0.5 acceptable in college, or 0.7, or 0.9? This is so confusing, why do the manufacturers make so many different sizes??? 
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<p>One more thing, off topic: has anyone heard from our friend HikoSeijuro lately???</p>
<p>who’s HikoSeijuro</p>
<p>your Lead pencil question, believe that’s personal preference but .5 is the standard </p>
<p>fishing line huh?..make sure its at least 20 lb. thickness</p>
<p>What about the color of erasers? Some erasers can leave those terrible pink marks on your paper. A guaranteed F right there for non-neatness. This is so troubling! UC, I hope you make the right decisions. God bless you!!!</p>
<p>For my pencils, I have upgraded from #2 pencils to #e pencils. The extra .718281828459045 gives me a distinct advantage over the other students. Just more food for thought.</p>
<p>if a permanent marker says permanent on it?..i mean exactly how permanent is it?..shouldn’t they give you a time frame of its permanentness? i’ve seen permanent markers not be so permanent and ones that didn’t even say permanent seem permanent enough…hmmmmm</p>
<p>These questions are so hard. 
I haven’t seen Hiko lately.</p>
<p>Don’t you mean #2e, seahorse?</p>