One thing pointed out by this guy that I hadn't quite put together was that the main physics being used in engineering is from two areas. Those being mechanics and E&M. Sure there are things that have more modern physics, or bioengineering, but if you look around your room at all the things made by engineers they are either mechanical systems (say a door with hinges and a lock) or electrical systems (like a guitar tuner or computer or light bulbs) with or without some mechanical component. Quite honestly I forgot why I picked electrical engineering. I applied to some colleges for physics, and I believe I applied to my current college for CS originally. I'll say some things that contributed to my choice, and I'm remembering more and more why I chose it as I'm writing this. Mechanical things seem easier to me and I have a pretty good intuition for gears and building physical things. I also wanted to be an aerospace engineer and a fighter pilot at some point. Should you persue goals you no longer want just to finish and get to the end? Sometimes yes, it's good to finish things. I've liked doing many things and I'm not sure I'll work as an electrical engineer. But yeah I was sorta interested in electrical things because it was hard and I was interested. One things that may have contributed positively is the flipping of signs for conventional current flow vs electron flow. Lots of places on the internet get it wrong like these guys (they've since fixed it) and when I notice inconsistency my bs alarms go up. Maybe that made me want to investigate further, but it also frustrated me. Sometimes though, as I've learned, charge cariers can be positively charged (believe this happens in wet batteries). When I came to college the plan was to get a degree that would allow me to be a 3rd assistant engr on ships. According to here with a degree in EE or MechE (from an ABET acredited college) and some other sea time you can be a 3rd A/E. When comparing what was required from MechE classes and EE, the EE classes seemed much more fun. Going back to the orignal point. If you want to be a worldly engineer you probobly want to be able to understand how most things in the world work. If someone has a natrual inclination towards mechanical stuff your weak area is electrical, so maybe be good to learn that. If you're somone who has a lot of prior knowledge about electronics, maybe play with some engines, and fix mechanical problems. One time I was outside a bike shop waiting for it to open. This other guy was there waiting for the shop to open also, and I either asked him what was wrong, or just looked at his bike. The chain was off. I put it back on and he gave me like $5 and left. Another time when I had a storage unit around here for my car a woman was having a bad time with her unit because it wasn't closing. The storage facility had nobody in person and she was on the phone pretty frustrated because her little brother was in the car (much younger) and they were supposed to do something. I went over and saw that the slot in the wall where you slide part of the door lock into was sorta off center. Think that was solved with some pliers maybe and her door shut. She was quite thanfull and gave me her card (she was a lawyer). It's nice to feel useful to people. I don't think everyone should do electrical engineering. I was getting pretty tired of it for a bit. The world does seem to be trying to trade the mechanical for the electrical. Cars don't have carburators anymore, they have electronic fuel injectors, or electric motors. points ignition is traded for solid state stuff (not super knowledgeable in modern car hv transformers). I've done a fair bit of philosophy about cars. In some ways a VW bug (or any car pre 1973ish) provides a lot more freedom than a modern car. Modern cars are largely computer controlled and have nonfree (or hard to modify, or illegal to modify) software that in many cases could be used in user hostile ways. If your car wanted, it could turn itself off any time you went 10 miles over the speed limit (I'm not joking it would be so easy like a single line of code to do this). Maybe someday you'll have to put your driver's licence in the car before it starts. It's sad that the only reason people are mistreated and pushed into not truly owning or controlling what they bought is because the techonology already inside permits piggy backing other stuff (something not possible before computers were made standard in cars). However ther's no getting around the fact that VW bugs pollute more and are going to be less reliable than a modern car.