I chose Computer Engineering because I've always been interested in Computers, Physics and Mathematics. Computer Engineering is a combination of those things. I always thought electricity was cool, so that's also a huge bonus since, like I stated previously, Comp E is Electrical Engineering...
As someone who recently entered college and is now majoring in Computer Engineering, I don't know what else could be stated that Jaeusm hasn't stated already.
My college Computer Engineering program is literally half of the Computer Science classes combined with half of the Electrical...
Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science have both interested me greatly. I'm fairly certain that I want to pursue in one of these fields in the future. Though, I've heard that CE requires you take some match classes that are quite difficult. It's not that I dislike math, as a matter of fact...