Hello I have a question: I'm thinking on buying a 0.5mm delguard and I was just wondering do I have to buy the delguard brand refill or any other 0.5mm refill will be alright?
I am so lucky to have discovered jetpens in my freshman year of high school!! instead of having to make purchases over and over again because my american stationary kept breaking, it was one purchase at the beginning of the year. also it made me motivated to take notes and do schoolwork, all my stuff was cute!
i found them around 2018 when i was in my junior year of high school and been using their stuff ever since. even now during my last year of college this is my goto site for all my stationery supplies. jetpens fr goated
School supplies! ❤❤❤ I was in college 2007-2012, from age 49 to 54. What I would have LOVED is those detachable paper-tape flags with the blunt flag for the page margin and the sticky-note arrow to go right next to the indicated text. Those are GENIUS!! 🎉
I showed off my Kokuyo Fitcurve pencil to my sister and she got really jealous because her joints are bad so normal cheap mechanical pencils hurt to use, and now I'm committed to buying her 2-3 Fitcurves for Christmas. She deserves the best.
OMG I actually just bought Ann’s collection in preparation for grad school and it really is such an upgrade compared to the options I had as a kid shopping at like target and staples and stuff
Outside of Lisa Frank stickers, lol, Ann is SO right about American school supplies. I'm an 80's-90's student and if anything, I wish I had the Campus Kukuyo binders and notebooks, and the Pilot Frixion erasable pens! Erasermate pens were a nightmare, lol, and would tear your paper no matter how careful I was when trying to erase. I did have a multi-pen due to frequent trips to Kinokuniya Bookstore in Little Tokyo, lol.
This video was so fun to watch! Earlier this year at age 24 I graduated with my Associates degree and happily used stationery from Jetpens during that time! My favorites were the Zebra Sarasa Mark On Gel pens combined with the Marvy PastelLiner Highlighter, with the Tombow Mono Air Refillable Correction tape. What I loved most was how fast the gel pens dried so I could highlight them with the soft pastel highlighters. Regular fluorescent highlighters hurt my eyes, so I love those for that reason. The Tombow Correction tape is the best for being refillable! It was so much better than constantly throwing out the Bic correction tapes, which don't even work as well.
I still use the pencil I used in college, because it's still my favorite pencil! It's the Uni Chroma, which JetPens sadly does not carry. It has a side button to extend the lead, and the lead sleeve slides back as you write, keeping the lead protected without getting in the way. It also has an extremely generous twist-up hexagonal eraser that works very well. It is by far the best cheap mechanical pencil I've ever used, and the fantastic eraser makes me reach for it more often than my thrice-as-expensive Alpha Gel Kuru Toga, which has a laughably tiny eraser. I honestly don't understand why JetPens doesn't carry it.
I just started grad school after *cough cough* years away and I’m really happy to have Japanese stationery in my life this time around. I’m rocking a system of Maruman tablet paper plus Maruman Kurofit binders and I love how I can rearrange pages or mix and match paper types as needed as I go.
One thing I'd love to have years ago are customizable multi-gel pens which are still not commonly available with reasonable prices in my country. I used to use up at least 2 gel pens per week despite juggling 4 colors when taking notes. (and still have time to doodle with my mechanical pencil and other stuff waiting for my classmates to catch up). Not even my Workstation laptop can keep up with my mindmapping on Xmind during colleges. now I juggle 12 fountain pens with different colors just to enjoy the tactile feel of handwriting. Kokuyo Campus slide binder is still my favorite one I carry around since it became available to me (sadly, after finishing college). Refillable binders and notebook-style binders are best notebooks for perfectionist & organizing lovers like me.
What stationary in my back pack? Jestream 2+S (red-blue), Dr.Grip ballpoint, Acroball, Kokuyo Mark+, snowman whiteboard marker in 3 colors, Pentel/Boxy eraser, Ainstein leads, Muji scketch pencil 2.0, Deli correction tape, UHU glue stick, Deli basic note & pocket note, Smart Binder with plain-dotted-grid combination. DoKoYear A5 ring notebook as my signature Techo. (Yep that my style, my way to setup schedules). All for planners, notes of my research & each subject of my classes, students assignments notes, and evaluation notes. 😅
This is a great help as I'm about to return to school, 34 years after graduating college. Love the different-colored notebooks and weekly planner. And I agree with Ann, American school supplies ARE terrible! So happy to have JetPens this time around.
Love seeing new friends in these videos! I definitely could have used the Kokuyo Campus Smart Ring 60 Binder Notebook when I was in school (although it wasn't too long ago that I graduated), but I'm heavily considering applying for grad school, so this video is perfect for me to scope out new products I could use in the near future!
I was never able to find what I really wanted in stationary until I discovered Japanese stationary! Ann gets it 🙌🏽 I purchased my first Kokuyo campus notebook (biz version) and I am using it for everything. I'm excited to get the multipack so I can separate my thoughts/notes/ideas, etc.
I retired a few years ago and started taking college classes again. My biggest discovery was the Kokuyo line of B5 paper, notebooks, and binders. I mostly use the Smart Binder Notebook that holds 60 sheets. I like the Shikkari paper since I mostly use mechanical pencil for notes. My favorite mechanical pencil-the Platinum Zero Shin-came from JetPens too, but sadly it’s no longer made. Good thing I stocked up on them and have a lifetime supply.
Connie: Ah, fellow English major, you know my woes of writing and carrying bricks for books lol I color-coded all of my notebooks for class, too. So handy to pick them up easily and go. I used to have them in one big 5 subject notebook (college ruled of course), but the sections didn’t have the same amount of paper lol… I also got into stationery because of a pencil. Someone left behind a Zebra Tech 2 way shaker pen and I gave it a new home lol Couldn’t find anything like it after though. I wish we had textbooks on tablets like they do now. It would have greatly helped my back lol… Ann: THEY DO SUCK, SING IT LOUD AND PROUD! There is nothing like Japanese and Korean stationery to make the school year better. I doodled in the margins with a crappy ballpoint pen, too haha My Japanese teacher had different shaped paper clips and I was like omg I need these! If I had a Kuru kuru~ Toga for Japanese class, that would have been SO handy lol Having one notebook divided in different subjects didn’t work for me either, but I would have loved refillable notebooks for lightweight carry and organized notes back in the room. I had no idea that pen case was so roomy. Yes let’s put snacks AND stationery in it! Now we’re in heaven XD *high fives. Thank you for introducing us to more Jetpens staff! Everyone is important, no matter the position! Thank you for all you do
Jetpens took me back to school (at 62) and my 3.97 GPA is mostly due to you! The note taking video made a real difference and I am very grateful. So you have supplied my school journey (back in the art school days I was a Staedtler and Sakura Micron kid, with a deep love for a Flair pen, so you keep that part of me going as well)
I would've liked the Kokuyo Campus Smart Ring Binder for sure, and I have one now! Though, as a computer science student, I didn't really need to handwrite that much. Really only math homework most of the time. I used graph paper pretty much exclusively, and I got a ton of it for free every semester (so much so that I _still_ have some of that. I don't use it much anymore. Not fountain pen friendly). BUT I would probably send myself a good fountain pen (or ten) - my hands used to cramp up during finals so bad. Which was probably a combination of using free ballpoint pens and my writing style. Mind you, I would not have spent a lot of money on a pen then, so I'd probably say a TWSBI ECO, EF nib, and a bottle of Noodler's X-Feather (Black or Blue) would've been ideal. And maybe some good highlighters that don't smear much for color coding, which I didn't used to do but probably should have.
American school confuses me so much. In the uk we were giving the book to write in for each class by the school and in secondary school (11yrs old to 16yrs) we were also given planners every year. The only supply’s you had to buy were a pen, pencil, protector, ruler, calculator and a sketchbook for art class and all of there were available at school to be bought for cost (eg the school made no profit selling them to us). People did bring extra stuff in for fun (I found coloured pencil for geography and a permanent mark for science class most helpful) but if extra stuff was needed school had class sets of them.
Jetpens didn't exist while I was at school. The Kokuyo Campus binder would have been such a blessing to have in the late 1990s. Imagine going to school carrying four textbooks in your backpack AND having to keep a massive triangular plastic binder!
I remember when I was in HS, for one class I needed to have a 60-page or something notebook specifically, but I convinced my teacher my writing was small enough I could do it in a 32-page notebook JUST so I could use a cute Japanese one. I was successful (with pages to spare) and he gave me a (slightly racist) award at the end of the year. 😵💫
I love this! You couldn’t pay me enough to return to school. I love stationery and back to school supplies but I am very very glad those school days are over
I just enrolled in grad for my second masters, and I’ve been drawn to five star/stellar (five star dupe) 5-subject college ruled notebooks. I also added sharpie s-gel pens 0.5 and 0.7mm to my collection. I’m looking forward to using them with the sharpie s-note highlighter markers .😊
I discovered Jetpens back in 2009 when I went back to school to finish my bachelor's degree. I was really on a tight budget and I had the following in my nomadic black pencil case: 2 Uni Kurutoga mechanical pencils, 1 Bic retractable 4-in-1 ballpoint pen, 2 of each of the Uni signo 150 0.38mm that came in 6 different colors (black, hunter green, violet black, blue, blue black and red). Tombow mono correction tape, Stabilo highlighters that came in 3 colors: neon yellow, orange and pastel blue and 2 of Sakura's Sumo Grip erasers. But of course, I had some of the Daiso stationery like their sticky notes, page tabs, and few of their notebooks. But didn't quite liked it and after a quarter, I had to change to 3" hole binder, but used Kokuyo loose leaf paper with 6mm dotted rule. I preferred Japanese stationery over American stationery because of its quality, smooth writing, and it is compact. They make studying more fun! I would say. American stationery really sucks big time because they are so clunky, big and so old-fashioned durable. Until now, I still use the same Uni 0.5mm pens for color coding on most of my recipe development notebooks and culinary journals either home or professionally. I am a chef / consultant. I had graduated to more stationery like translucent sticky notes, washi tapes, gel pens and love the Uni Kurutoga mechanicals pencils on different models like the Advance and the Uni Alpha Switch. Then I had recycled my old Japanese pencil cases by putting a first aid kit and pill box on my backpack. Jetpens just made my studying back then more fun, fashionable and functional to me. I have seen a few other students during my Taxation class, and saw what kind of pens they had while notetaking housed in unique pencil cases. Sometimes it caught my eye, and asked the student what they were using. I am grateful that Jetpens existed and sells unique and curated stationery for everyone!
My high school years were, ahem, quite awhile ago. I wish I'd had those Kokuyo Smart Campus notebooks, because textbooks were heavy enough! Also most students at my school didn't use backpacks, that's how long ago this was.
Nostalgic for past schools days, no. Nostalgic for the excitement of shopping for schools supplies, yes, even though Ann is spot on in regards to American school supplies, because they are terrible...in the sense they're disappointing. It would've been interesting to have had a JetPens available back then.
I would’ve bought all the left-hand friendly gear. You guys have on their website if I was still in school and of course, the fountain pens that I have now. thank you plenty for your service.
Living in Europe, it's SO weird seeing Americans talk about having to buy notebooks for high-school. When I was in school, all of my notebooks and exercise books were provided *by* the school for all students. Kids shouldn't have to pay to be able to study.
I got to go back to school for a second degree in civil engineering and I already knew about JetPens for a few years, so I actually got to do this in real life. Pencil - Kokuyo FitCurve. I love the weight distribution and the long eraser. Perfect for frequent 3-5 hr math/physics/chem hwwk sessions. I can't do Kurutogas bc their weight distribution feels like the writing end is way too light and they always come w teeny, tiny erasers. I love this pencil so much I made sure to buy multiples of the other colors before they were discontinued so that I have a lifetime supply. I hope Kokuyo brings these back in fun colors again. I would love to own the red-white-black one. XD Multipen - I bought my Hi-Tec C coleto bodies and refills bc 2 Bic multipens broke on me in one semester - both cracked in the same place where the blue connects to white. Of my most used Coleto bodies, my oldest is 6yo and the other is 3yo. Neither have broken. I chose the Coleto system bc 1) theirs is the only one whose refills show the colors, 2) there are a lot of colors, and 3) I love writing in 0.3. Notebooks - for classes I'd rarely review or didn't even care about: super thin notebooks like the Kokuyo Campus ones. If I don't care about the class, why should it waste space in my bag? Notebooks - for classes I'd actually want to review: spiral notebooks w unlined paper. I hate lined paper for math, physics, and engr classes. Lines are so distracting and limiting for diagrams and equations. My fav were the Muji B5 craft notebooks. The 80 pages were usually enough for a whole class and I loved the off-white paper. Homework paper - Notes go in a notebook, but hmwk was loose-leaf. Blank white, printer paper for the win. Higher quality and sometimes even cheaper than lined paper, unlined printer paper makes it so easy to write and review STEM hmwk. And u can punch it w a normal 3-ring hole-punch. Not some tortuous, partial holepunch for proprietary papers. Agenda - Nothing really fit my needs - so MS Excel for the win. For school, I liked having a hardcopy of a my day divided into half hours like a Google calendar bc I really needed to see when my classes, breaks, club activities, and free time were. I'd print out blank weekly copies w my classes and club times pre-filled in. For monthly views, I would print out a long, continuous table on 8.5x11" for a 3-4 month overall calendar so I could see my semester in one shot - extremely useful to see how long u have btwn midterms and finals. Then you can place these either inside ur 3-ring binder or in the binder cover.
Ann is 100% correct about American school supplies. My sons are in middle school and high school, and I am so annoyed that their teachers want the ugly marble composition notebooks in sixth grade and standard spiral notebooks later. At least they can choose their pens and pencils! When I worked at a brokerage house, I was one of the few people who actually used notebooks and a good calendar. It's important to jot down things, especially when you have to go back months later to follow up. You need that information of whom you called, account numbers, other contacts. Everyone, in school or not, needs good notebooks and good pens.
Hi! A few of my family members are career school teachers; I think 3 or so teach in high school. I just want to mention that sometimes, teachers cannot get sufficient classroom supplies for their students from the school itself. There isn't money in the school budget for it. So sometimes a teacher will pay out of their own pockets to get supplies for a class. It shouldn't ever happen that way, but this is what some school districts seem to force teachers into. I imagine that having to pay might influence a teacher in deciding what s/he wants students to use in the way of notebooks. I'm not giving excuses, or saying that this is always what happens, but sometimes it does. With all that said...both Ann and you are 100% correct: American school supplies are terrible.
Love seeing new faces in this vid was awesome and their picks felt relatable and realistic for their daily usage. All of them would be great student gifts ovo
Everytime I watch one of your videos I always think "I wish I had that when I was studying". I am an Administrative Assistant and definitely my essentials would be a Kokuyo Jibun Techo as a school planner, the Kokuyo Smart Ring notebook (to not waste a full notebook on a single subject), an Energel pen, a Pilot knock Frixion, a Uniball Jetstream multipen 4 +1, Kokuyo Novita expandable book (to store by subject all the presentations and documents I had to prepare) and a Doughnut Macaroon Large Backpack to fit everything. It would have been so convenient, it's never too late to go back and study something else, but if I do, this time I'll be prepared hahaha.
I definitely do NOT miss high school AT ALL. College may have been a bit different if I approached it differently. That said, I learned via JetPens that the standards in Japan for consumables are higher and it shows. Even 25 years ago, when I would go to Staples or elsewhere... binders, pens, pencils, etc. were all rather disposable. At one point, the standard was a Five Star notebook. Five Star today though is very mid.
Yes, I miss my high school days. I think the stationery quality back in the 70s was better than it is today because I remember using fountain pens during those years. I used a steno pad in my shorthand class, and regular filler paper for all my other classes, and the paper stood up well to pen and ink.
I could've saved myself so much pain from getting pinched by metal binders if I knew about Jetpens (or stationery) in middle school 😅. As a grad student now, I'm tempted to get a squishy ringed binder just because, even though I much prefer notebooks and the zebra sarasa vintage clips in pretty much all of the colors, with a few cheaper yet still solid fountian pens to feel the part of being the dark academia aesthetic
Connie I love your blouse, so cute and juicy at the same time. 👍🏻😋🍊 Ann - you know what is really terrible? If don't have any school supplies or just one fountain pen and pencil, ugly notebooks and bag made by your mom. This is all I had in my school days in 1979 in socializm country. You are living in school suplies heaven. 🙂
this is a cool concept until you remember that most schools require composition notebooks, have mechanical pencils banned, and barely have any paper assignments anymore
When I was in school, my go-to supplies were a mechanical pencil with a knurled grip section. I'm not sure what brand it is because the side is covered by a sticker and has been for years. Other than that, Pilot Precise V5s were my favorite pens and I even still have one that I got somewhere between 2005-2008 that still works. If I went back to school today, I'd definitely opt for a Rotring Drafting Pencil, some of the Pilot Multiball Rollerballs, Kokuyo Campus Ruler, Sakura Sumo Grip Eraser, Kokuyo Campus Notebooks, Uni Jetstream in Black, Pilot Precise V5 RTs and some sort of fountain pen in with blue ink, probably a Platinum Preppy F or EF... maybe multiple Preppys with different ink colors. And either Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens or Pentel Sign Pens for headers and fancy things.
When I was in college, that's when netbooks started getting popular, so that's what I had. It actually worked out pretty well since we had to download powerpoints and email profs anyway, so I was happy. If I were to go analog tho, I'd definitely go for the frixion pens I use now with one of the notebook systems where you can refill the paper like binders. Maybe have a binder hardcover thing to protect them while they're in the bag, since I think they're all very flexible. Either the campus or maruman ones, I like them both. I currently use sunstar brand standing pen cases, so definitely those. Not much of a highlighter, but if I had just one, it'd be the propus cause I need to see where the hell where I'm going 😭 I don't really use pencils, especially since frixions can erase, so no opinions on that haha. Also the only pencil I still have and use is a really old staedtler from my middle school days. I just really hate using erasers xD
May I ask a question? I know a very young student who does not have the full use of one arm. The student must do all writing/drawing/other tasks one handed. The student is very young, and is in second grade. Are there school supplies which might be especially helpful to such a student?
If I were picking for my freshman year of college, I would get a medium nib Pilot Metropolitan with a converter, a bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Yama Budo and Ku-Jaku, and a pack of kokuyo campus notebooks with covers. Maybe a Uni ball Kuru toga and a pack of nanodia leads for mathematics. I tended to take those notes and exams in pen in my later years anyway. My friends thought I was nuts. I also discovered JetPens during my college years and bought all manner of pens to hopefully defeat hand pain while taking notes. I deathgrip to the extent that even squishy gel grip pens didn't help much. Discovering fountain pens really salvaged my grade point average. I could finally take good notes for the entire lecture.
These would be great for self education as well! I have so many interests but I never stick with anything and so many different types of notebooks and pens lol!
4:20 I stopped using multi pens a looong time ago, since black would always run out faster than the other inks, defeating the purpose. So all these years each time I see one my mind can't stop thinking how "useless" they are because of that issue... and now you are telling me there's a multipen that actually tries to solve that problem?!, might add it to the shopping list
What are your go-to school supplies? Let us know what you HAVE to keep in your backpack!
Hello I have a question: I'm thinking on buying a 0.5mm delguard and I was just wondering do I have to buy the delguard brand refill or any other 0.5mm refill will be alright?
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@@Blazed4113 You can use any 0.5 mm refill!
I am so lucky to have discovered jetpens in my freshman year of high school!! instead of having to make purchases over and over again because my american stationary kept breaking, it was one purchase at the beginning of the year. also it made me motivated to take notes and do schoolwork, all my stuff was cute!
Why are all these comments from freshmans too??? I'm a freshman and now I'm seeing a bunch of comments about freshmans and highschool supplies
i found them around 2018 when i was in my junior year of high school and been using their stuff ever since. even now during my last year of college this is my goto site for all my stationery supplies. jetpens fr goated
@@frijolesborracho9340 lol I am no longer a freshman as I graduated a few years ago! but I still use jetpens in college!
School supplies! ❤❤❤
I was in college 2007-2012, from age 49 to 54. What I would have LOVED is those detachable paper-tape flags with the blunt flag for the page margin and the sticky-note arrow to go right next to the indicated text. Those are GENIUS!! 🎉
I showed off my Kokuyo Fitcurve pencil to my sister and she got really jealous because her joints are bad so normal cheap mechanical pencils hurt to use, and now I'm committed to buying her 2-3 Fitcurves for Christmas. She deserves the best.
OMG I actually just bought Ann’s collection in preparation for grad school and it really is such an upgrade compared to the options I had as a kid shopping at like target and staples and stuff
you actually can find some nice stuff at staples, they have some store brand note pads that are decent and the kuru toga starter kit
Outside of Lisa Frank stickers, lol, Ann is SO right about American school supplies. I'm an 80's-90's student and if anything, I wish I had the Campus Kukuyo binders and notebooks, and the Pilot Frixion erasable pens! Erasermate pens were a nightmare, lol, and would tear your paper no matter how careful I was when trying to erase. I did have a multi-pen due to frequent trips to Kinokuniya Bookstore in Little Tokyo, lol.
This video was so fun to watch! Earlier this year at age 24 I graduated with my Associates degree and happily used stationery from Jetpens during that time! My favorites were the Zebra Sarasa Mark On Gel pens combined with the Marvy PastelLiner Highlighter, with the Tombow Mono Air Refillable Correction tape.
What I loved most was how fast the gel pens dried so I could highlight them with the soft pastel highlighters. Regular fluorescent highlighters hurt my eyes, so I love those for that reason. The Tombow Correction tape is the best for being refillable! It was so much better than constantly throwing out the Bic correction tapes, which don't even work as well.
I really enjoyed hearing about the staffs preferences and reasons why they like certain products. 👍🏼
I still use the pencil I used in college, because it's still my favorite pencil! It's the Uni Chroma, which JetPens sadly does not carry. It has a side button to extend the lead, and the lead sleeve slides back as you write, keeping the lead protected without getting in the way. It also has an extremely generous twist-up hexagonal eraser that works very well. It is by far the best cheap mechanical pencil I've ever used, and the fantastic eraser makes me reach for it more often than my thrice-as-expensive Alpha Gel Kuru Toga, which has a laughably tiny eraser. I honestly don't understand why JetPens doesn't carry it.
I just started grad school after *cough cough* years away and I’m really happy to have Japanese stationery in my life this time around. I’m rocking a system of Maruman tablet paper plus Maruman Kurofit binders and I love how I can rearrange pages or mix and match paper types as needed as I go.
One thing I'd love to have years ago are customizable multi-gel pens which are still not commonly available with reasonable prices in my country. I used to use up at least 2 gel pens per week despite juggling 4 colors when taking notes. (and still have time to doodle with my mechanical pencil and other stuff waiting for my classmates to catch up). Not even my Workstation laptop can keep up with my mindmapping on Xmind during colleges.
now I juggle 12 fountain pens with different colors just to enjoy the tactile feel of handwriting.
Kokuyo Campus slide binder is still my favorite one I carry around since it became available to me (sadly, after finishing college). Refillable binders and notebook-style binders are best notebooks for perfectionist & organizing lovers like me.
What stationary in my back pack? Jestream 2+S (red-blue), Dr.Grip ballpoint, Acroball, Kokuyo Mark+, snowman whiteboard marker in 3 colors, Pentel/Boxy eraser, Ainstein leads, Muji scketch pencil 2.0, Deli correction tape, UHU glue stick, Deli basic note & pocket note, Smart Binder with plain-dotted-grid combination. DoKoYear A5 ring notebook as my signature Techo. (Yep that my style, my way to setup schedules). All for planners, notes of my research & each subject of my classes, students assignments notes, and evaluation notes. 😅
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This is a great help as I'm about to return to school, 34 years after graduating college. Love the different-colored notebooks and weekly planner. And I agree with Ann, American school supplies ARE terrible! So happy to have JetPens this time around.
Love seeing new friends in these videos! I definitely could have used the Kokuyo Campus Smart Ring 60 Binder Notebook when I was in school (although it wasn't too long ago that I graduated), but I'm heavily considering applying for grad school, so this video is perfect for me to scope out new products I could use in the near future!
I was never able to find what I really wanted in stationary until I discovered Japanese stationary! Ann gets it 🙌🏽
I purchased my first Kokuyo campus notebook (biz version) and I am using it for everything. I'm excited to get the multipack so I can separate my thoughts/notes/ideas, etc.
I retired a few years ago and started taking college classes again. My biggest discovery was the Kokuyo line of B5 paper, notebooks, and binders. I mostly use the Smart Binder Notebook that holds 60 sheets. I like the Shikkari paper since I mostly use mechanical pencil for notes. My favorite mechanical pencil-the Platinum Zero Shin-came from JetPens too, but sadly it’s no longer made. Good thing I stocked up on them and have a lifetime supply.
Connie: Ah, fellow English major, you know my woes of writing and carrying bricks for books lol I color-coded all of my notebooks for class, too. So handy to pick them up easily and go. I used to have them in one big 5 subject notebook (college ruled of course), but the sections didn’t have the same amount of paper lol… I also got into stationery because of a pencil. Someone left behind a Zebra Tech 2 way shaker pen and I gave it a new home lol Couldn’t find anything like it after though. I wish we had textbooks on tablets like they do now. It would have greatly helped my back lol…
Ann: THEY DO SUCK, SING IT LOUD AND PROUD! There is nothing like Japanese and Korean stationery to make the school year better. I doodled in the margins with a crappy ballpoint pen, too haha My Japanese teacher had different shaped paper clips and I was like omg I need these! If I had a Kuru kuru~ Toga for Japanese class, that would have been SO handy lol Having one notebook divided in different subjects didn’t work for me either, but I would have loved refillable notebooks for lightweight carry and organized notes back in the room. I had no idea that pen case was so roomy. Yes let’s put snacks AND stationery in it! Now we’re in heaven XD *high fives.
Thank you for introducing us to more Jetpens staff! Everyone is important, no matter the position! Thank you for all you do
Jetpens took me back to school (at 62) and my 3.97 GPA is mostly due to you! The note taking video made a real difference and I am very grateful. So you have supplied my school journey (back in the art school days I was a Staedtler and Sakura Micron kid, with a deep love for a Flair pen, so you keep that part of me going as well)
WOW congratulations that is amazing
I would've liked the Kokuyo Campus Smart Ring Binder for sure, and I have one now! Though, as a computer science student, I didn't really need to handwrite that much. Really only math homework most of the time. I used graph paper pretty much exclusively, and I got a ton of it for free every semester (so much so that I _still_ have some of that. I don't use it much anymore. Not fountain pen friendly). BUT I would probably send myself a good fountain pen (or ten) - my hands used to cramp up during finals so bad. Which was probably a combination of using free ballpoint pens and my writing style. Mind you, I would not have spent a lot of money on a pen then, so I'd probably say a TWSBI ECO, EF nib, and a bottle of Noodler's X-Feather (Black or Blue) would've been ideal. And maybe some good highlighters that don't smear much for color coding, which I didn't used to do but probably should have.
American school confuses me so much. In the uk we were giving the book to write in for each class by the school and in secondary school (11yrs old to 16yrs) we were also given planners every year. The only supply’s you had to buy were a pen, pencil, protector, ruler, calculator and a sketchbook for art class and all of there were available at school to be bought for cost (eg the school made no profit selling them to us). People did bring extra stuff in for fun (I found coloured pencil for geography and a permanent mark for science class most helpful) but if extra stuff was needed school had class sets of them.
definitely love the snack utility, would have been super useful in highschool
Jetpens didn't exist while I was at school. The Kokuyo Campus binder would have been such a blessing to have in the late 1990s. Imagine going to school carrying four textbooks in your backpack AND having to keep a massive triangular plastic binder!
I remember when I was in HS, for one class I needed to have a 60-page or something notebook specifically, but I convinced my teacher my writing was small enough I could do it in a 32-page notebook JUST so I could use a cute Japanese one.
I was successful (with pages to spare) and he gave me a (slightly racist) award at the end of the year. 😵💫
I love this! You couldn’t pay me enough to return to school. I love stationery and back to school supplies but I am very very glad those school days are over
Ann is me!!! On all points! I especially needed that pouch in college haha
I just enrolled in grad for my second masters, and I’ve been drawn to five star/stellar (five star dupe) 5-subject college ruled notebooks. I also added sharpie s-gel pens 0.5 and 0.7mm to my collection. I’m looking forward to using them with the sharpie s-note highlighter markers .😊
First! also, i would buy kokuyo campus graph paper notebooks.
I discovered Jetpens back in 2009 when I went back to school to finish my bachelor's degree. I was really on a tight budget and I had the following in my nomadic black pencil case: 2 Uni Kurutoga mechanical pencils, 1 Bic retractable 4-in-1 ballpoint pen, 2 of each of the Uni signo 150 0.38mm that came in 6 different colors (black, hunter green, violet black, blue, blue black and red). Tombow mono correction tape, Stabilo highlighters that came in 3 colors: neon yellow, orange and pastel blue and 2 of Sakura's Sumo Grip erasers. But of course, I had some of the Daiso stationery like their sticky notes, page tabs, and few of their notebooks. But didn't quite liked it and after a quarter, I had to change to 3" hole binder, but used Kokuyo loose leaf paper with 6mm dotted rule.
I preferred Japanese stationery over American stationery because of its quality, smooth writing, and it is compact. They make studying more fun! I would say. American stationery really sucks big time because they are so clunky, big and so old-fashioned durable.
Until now, I still use the same Uni 0.5mm pens for color coding on most of my recipe development notebooks and culinary journals either home or professionally. I am a chef / consultant. I had graduated to more stationery like translucent sticky notes, washi tapes, gel pens and love the Uni Kurutoga mechanicals pencils on different models like the Advance and the Uni Alpha Switch. Then I had recycled my old Japanese pencil cases by putting a first aid kit and pill box on my backpack. Jetpens just made my studying back then more fun, fashionable and functional to me. I have seen a few other students during my Taxation class, and saw what kind of pens they had while notetaking housed in unique pencil cases. Sometimes it caught my eye, and asked the student what they were using.
I am grateful that Jetpens existed and sells unique and curated stationery for everyone!
My high school years were, ahem, quite awhile ago. I wish I'd had those Kokuyo Smart Campus notebooks, because textbooks were heavy enough! Also most students at my school didn't use backpacks, that's how long ago this was.
Nostalgic for past schools days, no. Nostalgic for the excitement of shopping for schools supplies, yes, even though Ann is spot on in regards to American school supplies, because they are terrible...in the sense they're disappointing. It would've been interesting to have had a JetPens available back then.
Can you get Ann to link the markers and midliners she packed in her pouch??
When your school doesn’t allow us to choose our own notebook (the school makes their own):
Since now I am a lecturer.. I have many reasons to buy school supplies.. 😂
I would’ve bought all the left-hand friendly gear. You guys have on their website if I was still in school and of course, the fountain pens that I have now. thank you plenty for your service.
Thank you
I love this channel so much!!!
Tommorow is my first day of middle school! 🎉 (I am a 11 year old, this is just my parent’s account!)
I’m with you Ann American school supplies suck!
4:30 since when?
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Living in Europe, it's SO weird seeing Americans talk about having to buy notebooks for high-school. When I was in school, all of my notebooks and exercise books were provided *by* the school for all students. Kids shouldn't have to pay to be able to study.
I got to go back to school for a second degree in civil engineering and I already knew about JetPens for a few years, so I actually got to do this in real life.
Pencil - Kokuyo FitCurve. I love the weight distribution and the long eraser. Perfect for frequent 3-5 hr math/physics/chem hwwk sessions. I can't do Kurutogas bc their weight distribution feels like the writing end is way too light and they always come w teeny, tiny erasers. I love this pencil so much I made sure to buy multiples of the other colors before they were discontinued so that I have a lifetime supply. I hope Kokuyo brings these back in fun colors again. I would love to own the red-white-black one. XD
Multipen - I bought my Hi-Tec C coleto bodies and refills bc 2 Bic multipens broke on me in one semester - both cracked in the same place where the blue connects to white. Of my most used Coleto bodies, my oldest is 6yo and the other is 3yo. Neither have broken. I chose the Coleto system bc 1) theirs is the only one whose refills show the colors, 2) there are a lot of colors, and 3) I love writing in 0.3.
Notebooks - for classes I'd rarely review or didn't even care about: super thin notebooks like the Kokuyo Campus ones. If I don't care about the class, why should it waste space in my bag?
Notebooks - for classes I'd actually want to review: spiral notebooks w unlined paper. I hate lined paper for math, physics, and engr classes. Lines are so distracting and limiting for diagrams and equations. My fav were the Muji B5 craft notebooks. The 80 pages were usually enough for a whole class and I loved the off-white paper.
Homework paper - Notes go in a notebook, but hmwk was loose-leaf. Blank white, printer paper for the win. Higher quality and sometimes even cheaper than lined paper, unlined printer paper makes it so easy to write and review STEM hmwk. And u can punch it w a normal 3-ring hole-punch. Not some tortuous, partial holepunch for proprietary papers.
Agenda - Nothing really fit my needs - so MS Excel for the win. For school, I liked having a hardcopy of a my day divided into half hours like a Google calendar bc I really needed to see when my classes, breaks, club activities, and free time were. I'd print out blank weekly copies w my classes and club times pre-filled in. For monthly views, I would print out a long, continuous table on 8.5x11" for a 3-4 month overall calendar so I could see my semester in one shot - extremely useful to see how long u have btwn midterms and finals. Then you can place these either inside ur 3-ring binder or in the binder cover.
Martin is cute. My favorite school supply featured in this video was Martin. 💖
It’s so nice to meet more people on the JetPens team!! 🙂✨
Ann is 100% correct about American school supplies. My sons are in middle school and high school, and I am so annoyed that their teachers want the ugly marble composition notebooks in sixth grade and standard spiral notebooks later. At least they can choose their pens and pencils! When I worked at a brokerage house, I was one of the few people who actually used notebooks and a good calendar. It's important to jot down things, especially when you have to go back months later to follow up. You need that information of whom you called, account numbers, other contacts. Everyone, in school or not, needs good notebooks and good pens.
Hi! A few of my family members are career school teachers; I think 3 or so teach in high school. I just want to mention that sometimes, teachers cannot get sufficient classroom supplies for their students from the school itself. There isn't money in the school budget for it. So sometimes a teacher will pay out of their own pockets to get supplies for a class. It shouldn't ever happen that way, but this is what some school districts seem to force teachers into. I imagine that having to pay might influence a teacher in deciding what s/he wants students to use in the way of notebooks. I'm not giving excuses, or saying that this is always what happens, but sometimes it does. With all that said...both Ann and you are 100% correct: American school supplies are terrible.
Love seeing new faces in this vid was awesome and their picks felt relatable and realistic for their daily usage. All of them would be great student gifts ovo
Everytime I watch one of your videos I always think "I wish I had that when I was studying". I am an Administrative Assistant and definitely my essentials would be a Kokuyo Jibun Techo as a school planner, the Kokuyo Smart Ring notebook (to not waste a full notebook on a single subject), an Energel pen, a Pilot knock Frixion, a Uniball Jetstream multipen 4 +1, Kokuyo Novita expandable book (to store by subject all the presentations and documents I had to prepare) and a Doughnut Macaroon Large Backpack to fit everything. It would have been so convenient, it's never too late to go back and study something else, but if I do, this time I'll be prepared hahaha.
I definitely do NOT miss high school AT ALL. College may have been a bit different if I approached it differently. That said, I learned via JetPens that the standards in Japan for consumables are higher and it shows. Even 25 years ago, when I would go to Staples or elsewhere... binders, pens, pencils, etc. were all rather disposable. At one point, the standard was a Five Star notebook. Five Star today though is very mid.
Welcome Martin! Awesome first segment!
Yes, I miss my high school days. I think the stationery quality back in the 70s was better than it is today because I remember using fountain pens during those years. I used a steno pad in my shorthand class, and regular filler paper for all my other classes, and the paper stood up well to pen and ink.
I could've saved myself so much pain from getting pinched by metal binders if I knew about Jetpens (or stationery) in middle school 😅. As a grad student now, I'm tempted to get a squishy ringed binder just because, even though I much prefer notebooks and the zebra sarasa vintage clips in pretty much all of the colors, with a few cheaper yet still solid fountian pens to feel the part of being the dark academia aesthetic
Connie I love your blouse, so cute and juicy at the same time. 👍🏻😋🍊 Ann - you know what is really terrible? If don't have any school supplies or just one fountain pen and pencil, ugly notebooks and bag made by your mom. This is all I had in my school days in 1979 in socializm country. You are living in school suplies heaven. 🙂
Ann's out-takes had me 😂😂😂I love JetPen videos!
this is a cool concept until you remember that most schools require composition notebooks, have mechanical pencils banned, and barely have any paper assignments anymore
When I was in school, my go-to supplies were a mechanical pencil with a knurled grip section. I'm not sure what brand it is because the side is covered by a sticker and has been for years. Other than that, Pilot Precise V5s were my favorite pens and I even still have one that I got somewhere between 2005-2008 that still works.
If I went back to school today, I'd definitely opt for a Rotring Drafting Pencil, some of the Pilot Multiball Rollerballs, Kokuyo Campus Ruler, Sakura Sumo Grip Eraser, Kokuyo Campus Notebooks, Uni Jetstream in Black, Pilot Precise V5 RTs and some sort of fountain pen in with blue ink, probably a Platinum Preppy F or EF... maybe multiple Preppys with different ink colors. And either Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens or Pentel Sign Pens for headers and fancy things.
When I was in college, that's when netbooks started getting popular, so that's what I had. It actually worked out pretty well since we had to download powerpoints and email profs anyway, so I was happy.
If I were to go analog tho, I'd definitely go for the frixion pens I use now with one of the notebook systems where you can refill the paper like binders. Maybe have a binder hardcover thing to protect them while they're in the bag, since I think they're all very flexible. Either the campus or maruman ones, I like them both.
I currently use sunstar brand standing pen cases, so definitely those. Not much of a highlighter, but if I had just one, it'd be the propus cause I need to see where the hell where I'm going 😭
I don't really use pencils, especially since frixions can erase, so no opinions on that haha. Also the only pencil I still have and use is a really old staedtler from my middle school days. I just really hate using erasers xD
May I ask a question? I know a very young student who does not have the full use of one arm. The student must do all writing/drawing/other tasks one handed. The student is very young, and is in second grade. Are there school supplies which might be especially helpful to such a student?
Thank you for video, would love to see a full review of the wise-walker backpack. There’s very little info online.
The pen case was called "Lumiria" in Japan, but is it sold overseas as "LUMIERE"?
I’m also no longer in school but I loved Ann’s pics! More of these types of videos!
This was so oddly satisfying 😊😊😊
Very therapeutic😂
If I were picking for my freshman year of college, I would get a medium nib Pilot Metropolitan with a converter, a bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Yama Budo and Ku-Jaku, and a pack of kokuyo campus notebooks with covers. Maybe a Uni ball Kuru toga and a pack of nanodia leads for mathematics. I tended to take those notes and exams in pen in my later years anyway. My friends thought I was nuts.
I also discovered JetPens during my college years and bought all manner of pens to hopefully defeat hand pain while taking notes. I deathgrip to the extent that even squishy gel grip pens didn't help much. Discovering fountain pens really salvaged my grade point average. I could finally take good notes for the entire lecture.
These would be great for self education as well! I have so many interests but I never stick with anything and so many different types of notebooks and pens lol!
4:20 I stopped using multi pens a looong time ago, since black would always run out faster than the other inks, defeating the purpose. So all these years each time I see one my mind can't stop thinking how "useless" they are because of that issue... and now you are telling me there's a multipen that actually tries to solve that problem?!, might add it to the shopping list
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