What's the cheapest place to buy the stuff, anyway? I've been getting it at Packbackers (I think...the store kind of near Cup A Joe) by the ream, but I just ran out and I was wondering where else one could get engineering paper cheaply.

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10/18/2006 8:03:57 AM

what exactly is engineering paper?

10/18/2006 12:56:18 PM

It's just fancypants graph paper, typically set up with 1" major gridlines and 1/5" minor gridlines. A lot of engineering classes require you to use it for homework.

10/18/2006 1:02:50 PM

i think i got mine at the NSCU bookstore, still have a pad on my desk here at work, i really like working on the stuff when it comes to problems in class

10/18/2006 1:12:45 PM

it was pretty cheap at the beginning of the semester at adams.

(note: cheap for engineering paper is not cheap by any rational standards)

10/18/2006 1:17:41 PM

^no kidding

a pad is like 20 bucks or some shit

10/18/2006 1:38:21 PM

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"A lot of engineering classes require you to use it for homework."

Once you get used to it, though, it's damn near impossible to work on any other type of paper. Regular graph paper is too damn dark, regular notebook paper sucks ass, and plain white paper is just hard to use (I need lines, dammit! The right side of my text is like two inches below the left side...).

10/18/2006 1:56:49 PM

I actually like using computer paper for everything.

Screw buying those pads of paper.

10/18/2006 2:04:37 PM

20 bucks? I used to get it at the bookstore at UNCW for like $6

10/18/2006 2:04:59 PM

we talking about the green graph paper "Engineer Calculation Pad" by roaring spring paper products, it is like 200 or 500 sheets if i remember rightly

i bought the 200 and it was like 20 with tax, but this was years ago so i could be wrong, or it could have decreased in price

10/18/2006 2:12:27 PM

Just turn your stuff in on graph paper. Every prof I had that wanted assignments on engineering paper accepted them on graph if it was neatly done. That shit is such a rip off.

10/18/2006 2:36:09 PM

I learned to use white paper for homework over the summer when I lost my pad, but every damn CHE class I've been in so far requires the shit, so I guess I'll be buying a replacement in the fall.

Honestly, BIC mechanical pencils (0.7 mm lead) and engineering paper go so well together! The combination makes doing homework bearable.

10/18/2006 4:01:08 PM

i checked online

it is cheaper to get it in the bookstore than places i checked

10/18/2006 4:07:01 PM

Any professor that's anal about what kind of paper you do your homework on needs to be beaten upside the head with a whatsreallyimportant stick.

10/18/2006 5:16:16 PM

I love e-paper, I would use it exclusively if it weren't so expensive

I always buy it from the bookstore b/c I just don't know where else to get it. Also I noticed that buying a pad of 500 sheets is more expensive than buying 5 pads of 100 sheets. wtf

10/18/2006 5:18:29 PM

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"what exactly is engineering paper?"

you sir, should not post in this thread

10/18/2006 5:20:30 PM

soylent green is engineering paper

I get mine at the bookstore. I think I have enough for this semester, anyway.

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10/18/2006 5:42:02 PM

The only time I ever had to use engineering paper was for ECE220 homework. Seemed like the cheapest place I found to get it was at the NCSU bookstore.

^^^ Yeah, it seems like buying 5 100-sheet pads was cheaper than one 500-sheet pad back then, too. Never did figure that out.

10/18/2006 5:50:55 PM

i don't remember if it's once a semester or what, but try to hit the bookstore when they have their really big sale (everything like 40% off). that's when you want to stock up on the engineering paper

10/18/2006 6:12:06 PM

that shit's expensive??? I used to draw and doodle all over my ex's pages and he never said anything

10/18/2006 6:17:49 PM

^ It's more expensive than most paper, but still not expensive enough that I would complain about a gf using it for doodles. Assuming I had a gf. (But I would probably leave a pack of bulk copier paper out in the open, and hide my engineering paper.)

10/18/2006 6:25:18 PM

I have some i could get from work.. it has my company's logo on it and it sorta a marketing tool if thats cool.

10/20/2006 11:22:15 PM

15 and change at the bookstore for 500.

10/21/2006 12:01:12 AM

This is the only kind of paper we have at work. I would appreciate regular old college-ruled, but i'm a fake engineer.

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10/21/2006 12:53:26 AM

the bookstore on campus. or find someone who works at an engineering firm who can sneak some out to you.

10/21/2006 10:04:30 AM

I use this website to print out paper sometimes:
http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
I like using the Cornell Note Taking System PLUS Graph Paper, and I just change the margins around. You can make it look similar to engineering paper. Ignore what he has listed for engineers paper I don't know what that is.

10/21/2006 10:11:54 AM

the tan version that they sell at the bookstore is better quality than the green - it's usually out of stock though

10/21/2006 6:05:01 PM

yeah

i went to get some today and they were out

sucked because almost no one uses the tan so it is easy to find my homework in the piles

10/21/2006 6:07:00 PM

Quote :

"This is a kind of notebook paper. The preview doesn't do it justice. 1,001 uses for this. I write the names of my friends along the left, and things that happen to me across the top. When I tell a story, I can date when I told it and to whom! Thus, keeping me from the embarrasing "double anecdote"."

ha ha ha ha

10/21/2006 7:43:26 PM