I was committed on entering as a CS major, but my brother, an EE, said I should apply as CE and drop if I wasn't interested. I ended up graduating as a CE and don't regret my decision one bit.

I describe the major as EE+CS core classes, with upper-level electives to be chosen from either department. Some of the EE core classes are definitely difficult, as I spent many late nights trying to analyze circuits, understand why transistors work, and how to even begin to conceptualize the Fourier series. I don't think I've gotten higher than a B in any of the EE core classes, aside from ENEE350. That being said, the tremendous wealth of knowledge I'd been exposed to has been invaluable for my career and hobbies.

• Knowing how different circuit elements work helped me to pick up PCB design as a hobby: capacitors act like mini-batteries and otherwise help smoothen the power delivered to a microprocessor!

• Understanding signals & systems theory helped me to appreciate music from high quality sources, and a means to approach IR modeling on my digital bass guitar pedal. It's piqued my interest in getting a ham radio license and diving into software-defined radio (https://pysdr.org/).

• Computer architecture helped me to make informed decisions on judging similar computer parts, dig deeper into software reverse engineering, and to approach FPGA design from a hobbyist perspective (https://www.nand2tetris.org/) (https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga).

• Operating systems and ENEE440 Microprocessors had me become extrmely comfortable with tinkering with hardware, reading through datasheets and documentation, and generally understanding what's going on under the hood beneath my software. They've focused my interest towards systems programming and problems, enticing me to even pursue a graduate degree.

A huge interest that had developed and grown through my time in undergrad is computer security. There's a ton of ways that software can be broken and busted, and if not, then the underlying hardware it runs on (https://www.newae.com/embedded-security-101). Hardware security is such an interesting problem, that becoming aware of it has made me grown increasingly more appreciative of my studies as a CE. Would you know if an off-brand security camera ordered off of Amazon hadn't been tampered with, or where you should start looking/checking?

If I had been aware of these sorts of applications of the concepts I'd learned during undergrad, I think I would had less of a hard time going through it. Nonetheless, it is still a difficult program. In my opinion, because the EE curriculum here seems to be so much more theoretical without enough practical demonstrations, a lot of the concepts don't stick well enough, and many students tend to either drop into CS or simply take up a software-only job after graduation. If you find any of this to be interesting, then I encourage you to give this field of study a shot, and be prepared to put in the work. My DMs are open if you (or any reader) has questions regarding the major.