Sure, sorry about that. I can relate to Mom freaking out thing.
I did a BA in History while working as a political consultant. I started in 2002 after going to college full-time and just finished my last course this summer. As a result of the constant elections we have had (at the Federal and Provincial level), I found it rather hard to balance work and school. However, in doing so I learned some very valuable time management skills. More importantly though, I found that my work experience added significantly to education. The closer I got to the end of my degree, the easier I found the courses having gained real world experience that kept me grounded while surrounded by ivory tower types. I will say that the cost of this was finding myself at intellectual odds with some of my fellow students who tended to have little to no life experience which manifested itself in some rather comical, to me at least, views on the world.
In my experience, there is something very valuable in mixing meaningful work with your education to developing you as a person. Of course, you have to remain committed to finishing your studies as work opportunities do have a way of pulling you away from school. For me this was relatively easy due to my life-long goal of earning a degree so that I could become an officer in the CF.
At the end of the day though the best thing you can do is listen to the little voice inside you that tells you what is the right course of action. If you want to do you BMOQ now, do it. University will still be there in the summer. If you want to put off your BMOQ, the CF will be here as well.
As for my Artillery Officer reference, there are already quite a number of future Artillery Officer's on this BMOQ and there's been some discussion in the Facebook group back and forth about it. My comment was more directed at celticgirl.
Best of luck.