IOS 6: iMessage not working (iPad 2)

So I updated to iOS 6 (why on earth it needed 2.1 GB of free space I'll never know) this past Thursday. At first, I was really impressed.
A promising future. Then things started to go downhill.
I had to send a message (whenever I refer to a message, I mean through iMessage) to a friend about an assignment that our professor had given us. Well I made the text and went on to use something else. Only hours later, when I didn't get a response, did I see that it failed. I tried again and again for an hour and it did not work. And yes, I turned iMessage on and off, quit the application many times, and turned my iPad on and off. It wasn't the Internet connection, the connection was really good. So I have no idea what's going on.
However, my iPhone 3GS has not had any problems with iMessage. It's on iOS 5. (I haven't updated it to 6 b/c it requires 2.2 GB of free space, as if I had that, and when I connected my iPad 2 to my computer, it won't sync. My computer is running on 10.5.8. So I can't get the latest iTunes, and therefore cannot sync my iPad).
So has anyone found any way of fixing this? Apple needs to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to fix this.
And then give everyone who updated a complimentary something and an update to fix the problem.
I'm so glad I didn't buy the new iPhone 5. Wouldn't want that problem.

I would do as what Diavovex suggested:
Settings >>> General >>> Reset >>> Reset all Settings.
Once you have completed this, ipad will reboot, connect again to your Wi-Fi and then try to Reset imessage again. Just make sure your Apple ID and password are ok ...... try log in to Apple Store and if this is not an issue then I don't see why imessage cannot connect?
Azim

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