Biggest issue I see with this article is all of these suggestions assume you can keep motivation for a project as a student. But, for example, there's an enorm

Biggest issue I see with this article is all of these suggestions assume you can keep motivation for a project as a student. But, for example, there's an enormous amount of risk in delaying a semester or completely flipping your priorities, and then like most projects, losing interest when it becomes uninteresting/too expensive/fails/you find a competitor that trumps you hands down. More likely to burn out giving it 90%, too.