<p>You can most certainly maintain your “social ability” as an engineer, you just are forced to be more responsible about it than a lot of other majors are. You could easily go out most weekends, unless you have a big test you need to study for or a project due or something. It will be a lot harder to find time to go out on weekdays, though, and even harder to justify making time to do it. All-in-all, though, you can be as social as you want to be within reason. Your first semester or two in college, you will have more free time, and be tempted to just go hog wild, but it is generally wise to try and exercise a little control in that regard, because if you start the bad habits early, you won’t be able to stop them when you can’t afford to have them anymore.</p>