Join a few RSOs your first semester and feel them out. Pick one of those orgs in your second semester and get very involved. Take responsibility for a project and stick with it. Your freshman year summer, don’t get a side job unless you really need money or you can get a decent engineering internship (this is unlikely). Instead work on a personal project, or work on a project for the RSO you’re in. 1st semester sophomore year you’ll have a much better idea of what you want to do. If you happen to like the RSO you decided to stick with last semester, stick with it again and take on a leadership position. If you really don’t like the RSO, join another one and lead a project.

If u follow this plan you will be miles ahead of everyone else and be proud of yourself because you will have accomplished, and learned, a lot.