when I was in college, I got so wrapped up in music, among other things, that i had a harder & harder time focusing on school
I have amazing focus ... for what I want to focus on
so first I was gonna switch to Associate degree path so I could get my paper & get out before I wasted any more money (& incurred more debt, which is my main prooblem now)
but my advisor wouldn't let me, lol she almost broke down telling me how much potential I had & how hard it was gonna be for me without a Bachelor's degree
so I stuck around, but I tried to change my course load to suit me better, one year I had all my classes on MWF, so I could take the bus back home to get in the studio, or hang around on campus & make music, or just work more shifts (I had like 5 jobs, including DJing the home basketball games)
other thing I did was try to take Music Theory class, notice I said try lol ... 2 years before I taught myself subtractive synthesis from reading articles on FP & elsewhere, and 1 year before I had been picking some basic theory on my own & from talking to musician friends, but when I got up in that class it was a completely different story
my problem stemmed from, even tho it was Theory 101 I think, my whole class were all music students since Elementary School for the most part, so they picked things up much quicker, & the teacher didn't have too much patience with me ... the kind of person I am, the music class was a huge priority to me so I took the time it needed to pick it up, but I also had other classes, and college professors don't give a **** about what other class you have lol ... memories
so it made me suffer a little, and it slowed up my workflow with production because I did a lot of thinking
but I would definitely encourage you to learn the stuff, I had better success taking piano lessons at the Afro-American Music Institute, one because it was more rooted in jazz/soul/gospel then classical stuff that can easily lose your interest, and because it wasn't so life or death that I get the material in a certain time crunch