New grad-school ruled notebooks... FINALLY!

Mead Releases New Grad-School-Ruled Notebook

I must say this article made me smile. Here are some of the highlights:

"According to Mead's website, the ruling lines in the grad-school-ruled notebooks will be placed 3.55 millimeters apart, making them 'infinitely more practical' for postgraduate work than the 7.1 millimeter college-ruled notebooks. In addition, the standard 1.5-inch top margin normally provided for dates and headers will be halved, and the left-hand margin will be eliminated entirely.

'Just think: If you are writing a dissertation on elements of thanatopsis and necromimesis as they relate to cacaesthesian themes of mid-20th-century Irish literature, do you really want your notebook lines to be more than seven millimeters apart?' Luke said. 'Of course not.' 'When you're in grad school, every millimeter counts,' he added."

Also great:

"'Gone are the days of graduate students having to tediously pencil in new lines between each existing college-ruled line just to make the notebooks usable,' the press release read in part. "And with the time you'll save by not having to flip a page every 33 lines, you could earn your Ph.D. a year early.'

The new notebook also features a helpful page on its inside back cover that includes not only the traditional metric-conversion charts and world time zone map, but also handy guides such as the periodic table of elements, the Hertzsprung-Russell star-luminosity diagram, steel wire tension strengths, a list of the lattice phenomena of crystalline solids, and the entirety of Willa Cather's 1918 novel My Ántonia.

In addition, each page will be triple-perforated and seven-hole-punched, which Mead representative Kurt Fleming said is 'essential for the 21st-century graduate student.' The notebook will also have more spirals. Asked to explain why this particular change was made, Fleming responded, 'This notebook was designed with graduate students in mind.'"

* Cacaesthesian: from "cacaesthesis" as defined in an online medical dictionary, an "uncomfortable or morbid sensation."

Yeah, sounds right.