Dude, if you want to know how it is to be a CS student, go to collage.
digikey is near where I live and they hire a lot of people.
Blizzard and many other companies will not hire you unless you got a CS degree or tons of references and experience. The government and banks give loans and grants to these companies based on whether they hire people with these degrees.
Most degrees leave the college student broke, in debt or stuck with a teaching job that has large union fees. Even if you don't have crap to do at your job, a person with a CS degree or a physics degree is given the best treatment. I believe this is because they can see the obvious violations on the periodic table and problems in the terrorists events and other need to rely what others say.