It definitely has not "always been garbage." Your expiriences are not how it was when I was in school. As there is more and more money in tech "brogrammers" are slowly taking over, pushing the nerds out and making it hard to distinguish the sincere from the greedy. The data backs up what I'm saying, women in tech were over the 30% in the 70s. I hope you hang in there, we need more people like you. It's funny, people think the lack of women in tech only effects women. But the truth is this "alpha male only" attitude hurts men too. There's tons of valuable engineers who get overlooked because they aren't hyper agressive A types. I think things are improving, but slowly. Keep trying to find other friends in your major. My study buddies ended up being friends for life, and having support in your field is invaluable. Maybe check out local hackerspaces, or volunteer with a tech nonprofit. Plenty of nice engineers are out there, just a little harder to find right now.