Well, anyone is free to invest on this industry as long as that individual is aware of the risks present from doing so. The market prices or this industry in general is volatile. If you are investing money which is somehow your emergency fund ,then expect it won't work 'coz it is more likely to result into huge loss. Imagine that you need to pull out some of your investment because you need to use the money into something important and it happened that the market is down, what would you do? Selling would men cut loss in this kind of situation. Since OP is a student, same thing is applicable. But still, you made such great decision.