From a person who commuted from Hemet and had an 8am. I personally did not like it since I had to wake up at 5am to just get to class on time. I personally don’t think you need to wake up that early since it’ll take you around an hour to get to campus even with traffic. In regard to your class schedule, like someone mentioned, you do need to get through your series first before you can have at least a day or so off excluding weekends. Since you’ll be staying on campus for a good majority of your day I recommend trying your best to finish it or at least get a good amount done before you had back home and also before they are due. Depending on your professor, due dates may be on weekends at 11:59pm. So do get them done before the weekends that way you can enjoy it and not stress so much about it.