I went to college for 3 years on the east coast, dropped out and now am instructing on the west coast and have mixed feelings. I instructed and went to school at the same time and that was terrible. Having an "active" social life with work such as CFI'ing and it's hard. Case in point, Thirsty Thursady and your friday appointments, what do you do? Not show up and not make any money or progress? Not go out and have fun with your buddies? YEAH RIGHT! I'd like to see anyone make that choice, not possible.
Working a "professional" (not bashing cfi'ing, very much so a professional job, but my company was a joke) job and cfi'ing sucked. Doable, but sucked. Also don't get a degree in Aviation, it's a joke, wish I listened and gotten a business degree. Ohh well, so now i"m looking at finishing everything online and staying out on the west coast with my sugar moma(great thing to have). But by all means don't do what I did, go to school, get your degree, learn alot, have fun, and yeah the 'let's go flying' thing works amazing in college on girls, awesome what a 30 min flight over your college will do to your percentage of filling her tank with your fuel hose!