At least for me I know in the past when there were big things coming up which I had accommodate for by studying well in advance, I did better academically than usual. If you have your priorities and time management, and your finals schedule doesn't conflict, things should work out.
People are impressive with the short amount of time they've played it, I know SFSU got their cab around spring and ST opened in the summer. It's that arcade atmosphere. I just started playing after Evo, but I think I logged in more time this week in arcade than most people in a month o__O. Eric had been bugging everyone about how good XIII was way back in April, but I only took him seriously after I got burned out with Marvel. I only realized Liz had a usable command dash a few days ago -__-. So I'll try not be so free in KOF, since I'm coming down to SCR for UMvC3/college anyway.