your doing the right thing putting school first. get that "junk" out of the way and then you can have room to breath on your personal life, projects, etc. and reevaluate what you want to do vs. what you have time, $ and resources to do.

we were all there once too. i remember the hours burning in machine shop for my senior project (BE-ME 2005), and living in the library studying. it will end and life will get better. car might still be on jack stands, but it gets better.