@AmenZwa same here, except that fountain pens were allowed already in the 1st year. My handwriting with most anything but a fountain pen gets impossible to read even for me after a few sentences, so texts are written with a #fountain #pen Lately it's a basic Japanese Pilot, and a bit less basic (and ready to fly, it's a pen which is closed hermetically, and so changes in air pressure don't cause leaks) Taiwanese TWSBI Vac 700.