<p>Don’t stress too much from blowing over one entire quarter - you just go on academic probation and you’re set back some time. You’re still a freshman getting used to the college pace (and learning how much every point on a midterm REALLY means to your grade.) Really, take as long as you need to graduate and go at your own pace if the “set standard” is too fast for you.</p>
<p>Also, yes, do study something that you’re interested in. It doesn’t matter if the crap that you took for ONE quarter won’t apply to what you’ll be studying for the next years of your life. If you want to change, better change now.</p>
<p>You really do need to step it up now. If you can’t manage anything in freshman level math and GEs, you will have a hard time later on in engineering. Not to say that things right now are easy (they’re not), but build up good grades and study habits now to do better in the long run.</p>
<p>I reduced my courseload from 4 courses to 3 major courses per quarter and I barely have enough time to study/cook/sleep with just that. (I’m a junior in Computer Engineering, btw.) I plan to finish in 4 years + 1 quarter with 6 GEs done in the summer, and am thinking about putting those extra quarters in a co-op. Basically, do what you want.. Take your time.. seriously.</p>
<p>If you don’t like it, and like programming.. computer science IS programming. Computer engineering is just EE+CS. and EE is just.. mostly/all hardware.. look at the curriculum/flowchart for each one to graduate and see what you like the most. Those will describe it far better than I could.</p>
<p>Depending on how much you “like” programming, I could recommend going into EE/Comp E/CS. Assuming you really don’t like what you’re doing now.. yeah.</p>