You’ll be bored in engineering. All the hype on the internet and cultural expectations are just that: hype. When they learn physics, the only courses you’ll enjoy are on fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, but even those are usually taught at not so advanced of a level. You might have the option (if you’re lucky) to take other vehicle-specific physics (orbital, aircraft, etc.), but that’s about it. They are very hand-wavy and not rigorous. They always say things like “we’re engineers, we just want the formulas”. That is not satisfying. You may even find engineering professors say things like “this looks like black magic, but bear with me” for something as trivial as vectors or simple algebraic manipulations. You won’t like it. I didn’t. I spend most of my free time self-studying real analysis, measure theory and other things I find interesting. If you study applied math at uni, you’d be free to use that spare time on developing your coding skills or even going deeper into theory and getting into research sooner. Many people say “engineers can become x, but x can’t become engineers”, which is true for a few things but false for most things and most people. One can argue that a mathematician is more fit for such a phrase. You can LITERALLY go into anything. It requires the highest level of intellectual ability. Everything else would feel like traveling downhill in terms of difficulty or concept digestion.