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Originally Posted by Jamie Kalb
Remember, you don't have to have this entirely figured out coming into college. A large percentage (not sure of the actual number) of college students change their majors during their time there
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I can't reiterate this enough, and I wish someone had given me this advice sooner. I entered WPI as a EE, and was eaten alive. Long story short, it wasn't a proper fit, and I switched to CS which I am now absolutely fascinated with various applications of CS (actually have sort of a division of interest between robotics and entrepreneurship).
My main point is if you start in one major, do not feel compelled to stay in that major. If it doesn't feel right after you've taken 2 or 3 courses in it chances are its only gonna get worse. So if you find yourself in this situation, change majors and try to do it sooner than later(I changed majors halfway through my sophomore year, I initially tried out some CS courses and never really intended on changing majors until my dad pointed this out to me[He started chem eng, finished ME, and is now a software engineer]). I wound up wasting so much of my early undergrad career out of some mis found sense of dedication to EE.