If you think your high school textbooks are heavy now…just wait until college! But, if Apple has its way, the sleek 1.5 lb Apple iPad tablet could end up changing the way you learn at college…and possibly save you a few bucks (and your back) in the process.
How? With eBook capability built right into the multi- touch-sensitive device (and their own iBookstore)! Almost 150,000 iPhone applications will cross-over from Day One – so you can use your favorite iPhone apps to help fill out your college applications or take a break with a little Plants vs. Zombies, without having to wait!
No drab gray here, the iPad is all about color – and interaction! Touch highlighted words (like vocab or concepts) for more information. Create bookmarks to pick up where you left off, browse a touch activated slideshow, and flip through images, charts, or diagrams. Surf the web or watch an awesome college video lecture. Think of the possibility!
Pick a social media network and chances are somebody, somewhere is talking about it – what they heard, what they read, what they hope to see — and who can blame them? Even colleges share in the iPad enthusiasm! The Abilene Christian University student newspaper, The Optimist, is the first college newspaper to declare their intention to be on the iPad – or, at least, it will be when the Apple iPad (finally!) hits stores April 3, 2010.
Don’t forget about George Fox University! GFU is offering incoming students a choice between a computer (as they have done for the past 20 years) or the new iPad tablet. Great idea for GFU’s computer possessing freshmen – or for those planning to purchase eBook textbooks down the line – and hoping to save big in place of hefty college texts.
The 
sleekness of the iPad tablet dazzled My College Guide so much…well, what could we do? Offer up a chance to win an Apple iPad of your very own, of course! Request college information and you will be automatically entered to win the sleek and shiny Apple iPad (it isn’t like you don’t need college information)! The contest will end on June 1, 2010.
