Importance of a Pencil?

I brought a couple of pens with me to college, and I haven't even touched them. (Only used them to sign documents.) For lecture classes, I usually whip out a pencil. I find that I can organize my notes better than a pen cause I can erase and make it look neat, etc. I used to smear, but after a while, I stopped smearing my notes (I'm a lefty.).

I guess it's the eraser and how the pencil marks on paper makes me want to use a pencil more than pen. Blue ink ftl.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I love the sound that the pencil produces when you write across clean, fresh paper. Now I sound like some pencil lover. :<

I don't have any pens with me here at college. The one professor that requires pens on his exams just lends me one to use on test day. haha

The only mechanical pencils I use are the ones I made back in HS. They're assembled from a kit that the teacher ordered. I got to carve the wood myself using a rotary machine and chisel/gouge, and then glued the barrels inside the pieces. The rest is assembled by mounting the metal pieces in the barrels with a vice. I made three. I used my first one from 9th grade all the way until graduation. I'm on my second one now, and I would never use anything else. Period. Plus, they're gorgeous. <3