College is a place to have fun, but it can also be challenging. It’s almost time for the stores to be stacked with back-to-school offers, and the tech industry will be stacked with new releases. Adjusting from beer pong and beach parties to five days of college every week can be a bit challenging, but our good old smartphones can definitely help make the shift a bit easier.
Since smartphones have become a part of everyone’s life in the sense that it’s the first thing we check in the morning and last thing we do before we go to bed, why not use it for things that make college organized and let you ease into the classes? Here are my top picks for Android applications that should be a must-have for any college student.
myHomework
An excellent school schedule organizer, myHomework is free, with some ads popping up a few times. It has a class schedule and homework calendar, and it also sends you reminders and displays completed tasks. With these features, you’re unlikely to miss anything important. You can also create an account with the website that will let you sync your stuff in the cloud and access it later on any device.
Smart Voice Recorder
This app is very useful during long lectures that you aren’t really excited for. It specializes in long, hard voice-gathering sessions with excellent quality and good compression so that the recordings don’t take up too much space on your phone. The cool part is that it pauses the recording when it detects relative silence, so you don’t have to worry about those big gaps when the teacher goes silent.
EasyBib
One of the most boring tasks when writing papers is collecting and recording citations and references and formatting them into whatever the professor uses: APA, MLA, Chicago… it can be an exhausting exercise. With this app you can scan the barcode or input the name of the textbook and it creates a reference for your paper, preformatted in the required style. You can then email or share the citation.
These were some of my top picks for apps that college students will find useful, but there are tons of other apps to suit your college needs out there. For example, offline dictionaries, Wattpad, Pocket, and Scribd are few other noteworthy applications that you should have on your smartphone to make student life easier.