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I'm a junior college student doing some side projects[0] while taking 21 credits, jogging daily, going to mandatory club events, etc. Those except side projects take more than 40 hrs/week so I guess I have even less time for side projects than you.

I highly recommend you to read this talk script by Chris Wanstrath[1], one of GitHub's founders. Two of his suggestions:

- Turn off (or lower the frequency of) reading news/RSS/Twitter.

- Do a bit contribution to side project every day and get a streak. I feel John Resig's GitHub profile illustrates the point best[2].

I'm following these two suggestions on and off for a while, but I want to really do them for the whole year 2016.

And my suggestion is to go to some hackathons. You'll be amazed at how much you can get done during a weekend without distractions. Plus you meet a lot of awesome people, sharpen your skills and win prizes.

[0]: http://pwu.me/projects/

[1]: https://gist.github.com/defunkt/6443

[2]: https://github.com/jeresig

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>>I'm a junior college student doing some side projects[0] while taking 21 credits, jogging daily, going to mandatory club events, etc. Those except side projects take more than 40 hrs/week so I guess I have even less time for side projects than you.<<

You're assuming that the OP doesn't have a family or other responsibilities. I suspect that you'll look back on junior college, even with 21 credits and mandatory club events, as a time of carefree existence and plentiful free time.