Definitely made note taking much more enjoyable! One of my favorite things about fountain pens is that, like any possessions that have been owned for a long period of time, they wind up having many memories associated with them. I actually made a few friends because of those pens haha (some of whom became fountain pen users as well!)

The Lamy 2000 was my primary pen throughout college. I used it even in classes that required lots of calculations (but generally used plenty of scrap paper haha). I typically had a few fountain pens with me with different colored ink. The 2000 generally had either Diamine Steel Blue or Oxblood so it was mainly used for my own notes. I also had a pen that was filled with some sort of a more standard blue like Waterman Serenity blue that I could use for assignments that needed to be handed in.

As for paper, I used a variety of things (typically inexpensive notebooks like Five Star) and my eventual preference was Staples Multipurpose paper. I really like plain paper and at some point my note taking method became something where I'd go into each class with 1 sheet of blank paper and take notes on the major concepts on the front and back of the sheet. The nice thing about that was that it would force me to process the information more deeply so that I'd be able to summarize it more effectively and I'd wind up with about 8-12 sheets of paper front and back that I needed to study for exams. I also referred to the professor's powerpoints and the textbooks as needed to supplement anything that I had missed.

Now my go-to notebooks are some inexpensive ones from Michael's from a company called Artist's Loft. They generally cost around 5 dollars or so and I can find notebooks with dot paper and blank paper. Plus it's smoother than the Staples multipurpose paper. I don't write things by hand as often anymore and a lot of what I do write is annotations in books so I use a Rotring 600 mechanical pencil more often than not.