One thing often overlooked is the social aspect of getting a degree (CS or otherwise) -- getting a CS degree will give you more opportunities to meet/get to kno

One thing often overlooked is the social aspect of getting a degree (CS or otherwise) -- getting a CS degree will give you more opportunities to meet/get to know CS people. This has a soft benefit -- the people around you start to talk programming more (and you pick up a lot of casual knowledge from them). I think this is even more powerful than classes; it 'keeps you in the game' if you will. Of course, this works both ways (as you may lose connections to other people/majors because of this).