I have to assume you're 100% concentrating on your studies and don't have a part-time job. My parents couldn't afford engineering school for me after the first year, but I got through on scholarships, loans, and working 20-30 hours a week as an electrician's and plumber's apprentice. For $2 an hour. (Yes, this was 1970-73 and my shared apartment rent was $60/mo.
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I guess the takeaway lesson you'll get from most folks here with 5-50 years of experience modding vehicles is that cheap accessories are a continuing annoyance and disappointment. High quality stuff, in almost every way you use them, can be a source of great pride and satisfaction. Westin is the vendor of choice here - anything costing less than 3/4 of their price is a cheap knock-off whose design MUST be making compromises never in your long-term interests.
Better to not have a guard than to have a cheapie. If you have friends who are easily impressed by cheap mods, you can be the one to educate them in the value of good things. Deliver pizzas if you have to, but get the good stuff.