Its my understanding that you're likely to work in 3 or more areas across your life, one of which might be related to the thing you get a degree in. The idea of

Its my understanding that you're likely to work in 3 or more areas across your life, one of which might be related to the thing you get a degree in. The idea of going to school and working in that field for the rest of your life didn't even last through the Baby boom. Don't worry too much about making the right decision for specialization now. Electives exist to let you broaden your education beyond that. It's my belief that the most valuable thing is to know at least 2 unrelated things, and specialize at that intersection. For example, if you know electronics and computer science, and have a bit of experience in manufacturing (work in a job shop for a summer, and you'll learn exactly why we have machines still running MS-DOS, OS/2 and Windows 98 in the world) you'll be quite valuable to some. I could be wrong, seek a wide variety of sources of knowledge, and cross check them, you'll be ok.