How to handle this?

So my boyfriend and I have been LDR for a few months now but we were broken up prior to that due to me moving away. We still talked during our split so we both sort of consider that we were together during that time. Anyways, I was visiting him recently and we were talking about how the LDR thing is going. We both don't really like it but he said that he felt like he's just waiting around until the next time he gets to see me. 
Normally we're both in school full time, but my program is more time consuming than his. We don't have a ton of time to talk or skype. I'm trying to work on that though. Seeing each other has been hard due to distance and lack of time to travel and not enough money. But I'm worried that if we don't do something the relationship will fail. Does anyone have any advice on how to help him feel more like he's got a girlfriend? I've seen us fall apart before and it was awful- I'm willing to do just about anything to keep us together.