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tania:
having a part-time job is a pretty good idea if you can manage to fit it into your schedule. for the last three years i've spent about 10-15 hours a week either working or volunteering and it works out a-ok for me, i have stuff to do and people to see every week that aren't related to school and it gives me some good experience for my resume. DON'T work during school, however, if you don't need to and you feel like you really don't have the time to balance between the two and it's causing you huge amounts of stress, that won't end well.
your best bet is to look for a job on campus, as a lot of campus jobs tend to hire exclusively students, are usually pretty good about letting you work pretty minimal hours and will care enough to try to work around your class schedule.

Jace:
Maybe it's just isolated to my friend, but he is 19 and has a curfew still, mostly because of the fact that his parents are paying for his college. Because his parents have paid for his stuff, he has never had a job before. Ever.

Liz:
I work two part time jobs and go to school full time as well. It would be nice to not have to, but when your parents can't afford to help you out, you gotta make it on your own. And that is what I am doing. It sucks. It really doesn't cause much stress, just when I have to work the night before a test, or when I'm working towards the end of the semester when all the projects and papers and final exams are starting. sometimes it works as a nice little vacation from school, to just be able to go to work and concentrate on something else for a while.

benji:
See, it's really a case by case thing. If you're going to school far away, for example, it's hard for parents to attach strings to your life whether or not they're paying, and you will gain plenty of independence simply from not having your parents to turn to when there's a problem. Also, it depends on your parents. My parents had the attitude that once I was 18 my life was my own and they would advise me whenever I needed it, but it was no longer their job to make rules. I paid for college with money from my parents, loans, and a few scholarships. I do not regret this even a little. If I had paid for it myself, that probably would have meant being limited to going to school in state and living at home, or at least coming home every weekend, which certainly wouldn't have made me as independent as moving half way across the country and living on my own did.  

tania:
it does depend on the person. i am pretty lucky in that my parents paid for my degree, but personally i am the type of person who get really burned out if i spend too much time on school and it's really stabilizing to have other things to do for a few hours every week. i've had a full courseload every semester i've been in school, but my grades actually went up significantly the last two years when i started taking on more non-school work because it gave me a lot of breaks from school and made the time i did spend studyng that much more effective. some people are the type of people who need to spend a lot of time studying and revising, though, so working in school doesn't work out for everyone and if you do feel like you are getting stressed out, it's probably better to just cut down on your hours or quit the job altogether rather than try to force it to work cos, again, that's probably going to end really badly.

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