Academia’s favorite pens

On a lighter note, I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see what most of us use for writing – and, not surprisingly, the ballpoint pen won the poll! I like writing with a fountain pen and until the end of my first master’s I always wrote in either pencil or fountain pen, but then I started to write with the free pens I get at conferences as my studies advanced and I got poorer.

Here’s the result of the poll and its wake: