Signal Analysis or more CS? Advice needed

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Hi guys! I am currently a University student under the major Computer Engineering.


I am in a dilemma and would like some advice.


As a student, I am just finishing up all my basic requirements and am finally going to be able to dive into education.
However, I would like some advice.


A professor that I am quite close to has advised me to take courses that will take me into Signal Processing. As he says this will lead to many opportunities and that it not only is signal processing, but also opens up controls, if I so like it.


However, doing this will basically force me to specialize, since as a student I simply don't have enough time to take CS classes as well as EE courses.


The catch is this, security and crypto is very interesting to me. The rest of CS is meh.
I'm learning about crypto on udacity right now and it is extremely exciting, but the thing is, I'm not sure what applications crypto has in real life. I mean, a job in the gov't would rock, but there's only so many of those and I'm probably not smart enough to land one.


What do you guys think?
Should I play it safe and keep crypto as a hobby, or should I throw caution to the wind and go for it?


If anyone has a question, ask by all means lol

[petermlm]

Has a student of Informatics Engineering (Which is pretty much like CS) who is also studying Information Theory and Control in an investigation grant I can say that you shouldn't not finish CS. Even if many aspects of CS are boring an very uninteresting I have come to learn that they get important when looking at the bigger picture.

If you want to follow Signal Processing and you are very interested in Crypto then let me tell you that knowing concepts of math is very important but knowing about how computers work is also very important. So by having all that knowledge you would have an easier time studying Signal Processing and etc.

But that is just my opinion. If you really fell that what you are doing in CS is not very important and believe you would be better off just studying Signal Processing and Crypto due to lack of time then I advise you to just follow that choice.

Hope I helped.