I almost solved the NCEES Pencil Color Equation! ..... but not quite

[vee043324]

I've been using my April 2017 pencil for exam prep, and it makes me simultaneously motivated and sad.

i was thinking about throwing mine down a garbage disposal/lighting it on fire/smashing it with a hammer before the next exam..

 

[RBHeadge PE]

I had a red pencil for the last paper FE exam in October 2013.

The red Oct '13 pencils are evil. They existed only to spread despair.

i was thinking about throwing mine down a garbage disposal/lighting it on fire/smashing it with a hammer before the next exam..

I've been using my April 2017 pencil for exam prep, and it makes me simultaneously motivated and sad.

Don't destroy it. @txjennah has the right idea, use the pencil to channel the hate and focus your resolve.

...but maaayyyybeeee don't practice with the flawed instrument.

 

[Drewism]

The red Oct '13 pencils are evil. They existed only to spread despair.

I believe that, considering I did not pass that time. I had better luck with the erasable pad and marker.

 

[vee043324]

The red Oct '13 pencils are evil. They existed only to spread despair.

Don't destroy it. @txjennah has the right idea, use the pencil to channel the hate and focus your resolve.

...but maaayyyybeeee don't practice with the flawed instrument.

Maybe I can donate it? Bad vibes on it. I don't like having it with me, and for some reason it has been in my bag since the exam... but I don't know what to do with it. 

 

[vee043324]

lololol me at goodwill "hello there, just dropping off this perfectly fine yet cursed mechanical pencil."

 

[Drewism]

Maybe I can donate it? Bad vibes on it. I don't like having it with me, and for some reason it has been in my bag since the exam... but I don't know what to do with it. 

Destroy it and send it to the depths of hell where it belongs.

 

[tj_PE]

Destroy it and send it to the depths of hell where it belongs.

don't be surprised if it comes back and stands over your bed thursday night.

 

[vee043324]

LOOK AT IT. It is definitely cursed.

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

LOOK AT IT. It is definitely cursed.

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Vee... I respectfully disagree.  That is the one that has a place of honor in my house. 

 

[vee043324]

@vhab49_PE I got the cursed batch. yours was good. 

 

[txjennah PE]

@vhab49_PE I got the cursed batch. yours was good. 

October 2017? I lost mine somewhere. IT SHOULD STAY LOST.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

LOOK AT IT. It is definitely cursed.

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The problem is that its missing anything green; and it has the malevolent red.

 

[Drewism]

LOOK AT IT. It is definitely cursed.

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That's the black one. Mine was white and red, I believe. Red grip and red top.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

That's the black one. Mine was white and red, I believe. Red grip and red top.

They made the pencils multi-colored last session. In April 2018 the text was a different color from the grip, clip, and top. Prior to last session all four items were the same color.

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

@vhab49_PE I got the cursed batch. yours was good. 

Maybe the pencil vibes varied by discipline! Lord know my former screw-off co-worker who took structural should have failed... but did not.  

 

[DoctorWho-PE]

They made the pencils multi-colored last session. In April 2018 the text was a different color from the grip, clip, and top. Prior to last session all four items were the same color.

It was like that in Oct 2017 also.

 

[Drewism]

They made the pencils multi-colored last session. In April 2018 the text was a different color from the grip, clip, and top. Prior to last session all four items were the same color.

I hope we get green pencils on Friday. Anything green. Green is good.

 

[MechanicalApril17]

What color pencil was provided for PE April 2018 exam? It's lost somewhere in my apartment and I already forgot what it looked like.

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

What color pencil was provided for PE April 2018 exam? It's lost somewhere in my apartment and I already forgot what it looked like.

It was a change up! It was black and white, with a *gasp* SIDE CLICKER. I hated it. I wanted my French-made artisan tool. Made-in-China side-clicky with a crappy eraser? Hard pass!

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I'm super curious if they're staying with the side clicker or going back to the original Bic Matic. For me, the geometry of my head makes it really comfortable to tuck the pencil behind my ear at work. The April 2018 pencil was fatter and keeps falling off my head. These are the important things...