While your summer fun days are over, going to college doesn’t mean you can’t have more fun. With the right iPad apps, learning can be much easier and faster, giving you time to play.

Gone are the days of carrying books or spending the night in the library. Now all you need is a stylish, portable device and you have pretty much everything you need to study wherever you want. Download our list of the most essential iPad apps and prepared to be polite.

Dictionary and thesaurus. Having a dictionary with you is very useful, especially when you need to look up the meaning of a word. Dictionary app for iPad can help you significantly improve your vocabulary. It even has a “word of the day” feature to add a new word to your vocabulary every day.

To do is an application that can help you closely monitor all your tasks for the day. No longer will you have to go through all your notebooks one by one just to see if you have homework for that particular topic, as Todo will keep track of everything for you. This is perhaps one of the most useful back to school iPad apps.

Are you a virtual learner? If you learn better with pictures, then Cooloris it is definitely an application that you must download. You can search for almost any topic your teacher is talking about and view large images of it to make it easier to understand.

Looking for iPad apps to help you study? If so, you should get the Mental Case Flashcards app. For many people, studying for a test is much easier with the use of flashcards. With this app, you can download pre-made flashcards online on any topic to make studying much easier and more fun.

If you need to read a classic novel for your literature class but you don’t want to have to go to a bookstore to buy it, you can use Stanza. This application has a database of more than 50,000 books. Instead of having to carry too many books, all you need is your iPad and Stanza, and you can start reading whatever they ask of you.

Wikipanion is an application that gives you quick and easy access to Wikipedia. If you want to read a summary of a certain topic, you can use this application to do so. Just be sure to search for sources to ensure its legitimacy.

Whatever your learning needs, there is sure to be an iPad app for it.