iPads don't have MicroSD cards, otherwise Apple wouldn't be able to put ridiculous prices on anything with a decent amount of fixed storage. The other problem is that iOS isn't as open as Android is, so I can't just download something onto my iPad, plug it into my computer and pull the files out of it, since I can't access any of the internal files, I have to download them onto Dropbox or something, which wont work on my phone properly, email the file to myself, download it from the email onto my phone and then transfer it.
It's a stupidly complex system, I could sort it out by getting proper WiFi but student life demands that I spend all my money on ramen, not WiFi when I have a system that at least works.