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As a CE grad, this is the advice I would give myself at 18. Be undeclared the first year. Sure take the standard CE/EE classes, but even if you have to choose one officially, don't tell other people (especially girls at parties or roommates). It will make you more interesting and there is more to talk about (what you like, what classes you have, what you want to do, that you are interested in seeing what is out there and didn't want to pick something that wasn't right...)
I started off as a CS major, but moved to CE. I probably should have picked EE but had taken too many software classes by that time. At my job, I do software programming of hardware systems I design and build. While I'm not a whiz at either by themselves, I made it work where I can do both and make successful things happen. In school, I had trouble with the high level CS classes and understanding how they were teaching things. CS was changing and JAVA wasn't as widespread either, databases weren't very documented either. With EE, design and electrical systems are pretty much the same as they were, and the books were better.
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