If I might suggest, go broad. I actually did start my engineering degree and decided after less than a week I didn't like how theoretical it was and didn't want to be bogged down for four years doing that degree and swapped into 2nd year of a Geology degree. But there was more to it than that...
Hello,
I was just reading this topic and found it interesting. I just got accepted into an Engineering course after doing 1 year of a Geophysics course and finding it too boring and uninteresting. I never grew up wanting to be an Engineer, but like most of you here I was able to construct lego...