Tough situation. "Real" Full time work + more than 1 hard class and 1 easy class is bound to leave you exhausted. When I went to school I took advantage of "i

Tough situation. "Real" Full time work + more than 1 hard class and 1 easy class is bound to leave you exhausted. When I went to school I took advantage of "internships" and "special topics" classes. These let you remain enrolled in school while really working full time for an employer for a semester (+ summer). Went back to the same employer every year. This let me concentrate on one or the other and never had to mix the two. I hate to recommend this, but can't you just get some student loans and worry about it later? In a high pay city, taking care of a 40-50k student loan is just a few years of living cheap.