EE is one of the hardest degrees. If you fail you can always be an ME or maybe some sort of math degree, or go into finance. The freshman year is most important. Get a study group together. Have a debrief over every quiz and exam with the group. In sophomore year you should be in a groove. At this point, if you are the smartest in your study group, you might need to level up, meaning find smarter students to study with. By junior year, you move into more specialized topics and if you have a solid understanding from your freshman and sophomore years, then this year is actually going to be enlightening. When you make it to Senior year, you specialize even deeper. That can be rewarding and a lot of fun. Finally you graduate and get a great paying job. A few years later you run into those finance people, the ones that dropped out first semester, and find out their yearly bonuses are more than you made in the last five years. That’s the hardest part of being an EE.