My favorite ballpoint pen is a pen with red ink and a thickness of 0.4mm. Just saying "pen" has a lot of meaning. by Nada 20231117

This is Nada from Seito Medical School. This time we will talk about ballpoint pens. I've been using mechanical pencils since I was a child. Even at the cram school I attended when I was in middle school (the cram school from which the title of this blog is derived), I had no hesitation in choosing mechanical pencils. However, in high school I didn't study much and was absorbed in club activities, so I started writing reports to submit with a ballpoint pen from college. Since I used to write reports with a ballpoint pen, I started taking all my notes and tests with a ballpoint pen.

Ballpoint pen. Yeah. It exudes dandy. Then, as I entered the workforce, I stopped using mechanical pencils and ended up choosing ballpoint pens. As a pole penman (a name that sounds familiar overseas), I know that even just a ballpoint pen has a lot of depth. From water-based pens to oil-based pens, and even pens that can be erased with an eraser. By the way, the dark history is written in oil-based pen.

As for the thickness, the standard thickness you see at 100 yen shops is probably 0.7mm. However, if the pen has a thick lead, it is difficult to write neatly. Because the core is so thick, even the slightest misalignment can cause disaster. My favorite is a pen with a thin lead of about 0.4mm, and my recent craze has been writing notes with a red pen. It seems that there was a teacher at a certain company called Akapen Sensei, and I guess you could say that he was just enjoying the mood as an extension of that teacher.

That's why even though it is called a ballpoint pen, it has a deep meaning, and once written, it cannot be rewritten without correction fluid. When I was reading an article, it said that since you can't erase the words you write with a ballpoint pen, if you're writing in a math notebook, you can keep it as reference material, such as where you made a mistake in calculation. I remember reading that article and the only thing that came to mind was the word "huh." I guess I had never been aware of it. In any case, when it comes to ballpoint pens, there are many different types, from grip thickness to color and thickness, so I recommend that you look around at 100 yen shops. See you soon.