>>2007>working 10am to midnightlol. I'll admit I did that freshman year quite often, but as a Junior that never is something that I did rarely. Sure maybe 9am to 9pm since class schedules and I'm poor to own a car out here so I'm lazy to walk a few miles back to my apartment, but that's pretty much it. Otherwise it's always when I'm lazy and push off all assignments which coincides all to be due +- a day from each other.
If working so late is the only problem then consider taking an extra year to graduate. Keep in mind digipen's degrees are more or less a 5 year degree done in 4 years. Consider taking 1 or 2 classes less a semester and it'll work wonders of how easy the semester is. If you have the money then take some summer classes that isn't offered elsewhere or take classes at home for the summer of general education(ie math, art, physics, etc). I did a couple light(Light as in ~17 credits) semesters during those 'oh god this semester is gonna be the worst!' that everyone built up to think of it. You wanna know what's funny about that? I felt like I had no classes. Also stop stressing over game.
>definitely more riskyRTIS isn't risky at all. Though everything I said is biased towards my degree which I doubt you are RTIS. I'm chill as fuck now with my senior year to be left with silly electives.
Think of it this way at the very least, the amount of stress you've been through is nothing compared to most other colleges. I also hope you aren't a soph, because that'd really make me sad. It's unfortunate that people drop out once they're halfway done. Meet nice people and suddenly they up and leave :( Oh well