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Try and go for scholarships if you can! This isn't always easy, however. Scholarships (especially in-course, and for a mix of academic and extracurricular achievement) will push you to take on more leadership activity and be more involved with student life. They'll also look better on an application when you look for higher-level jobs, grad school, or professional school later. While I do admire people who are able to balance a job with going to school (it is tough), in the end running a conference will mean more than being a barista following graduation. If you have to work, best of luck to you-- the system is unfair, and tuition should be lower. Do everything you can do to graduate without debt, because it'll allow you more latitude in deciding your future.