<p>Don’t worry too much about this, in my opinion. You won’t have many “breaks” left. Use them wisely. Relax, enjoy being of an age where you don’t have a whole heck of a lot of responsibilities to worry about. Some programming is okay and you can mess around with that in your free time if you wish. It will help out even in ME, though how much will depend on what area if the major you end up focusing on. Still, I’d suggest not taking that too seriously. Seriously, just enjoy yourself. Your college has all sorts of courses planned for a reason: they don’t expect that you have already taken them.</p>