How can I deal with the possibility of becoming a university engineering dropout?

Kudos to you for figuring out what you are passionate about.If you finished your first year recently,why don't you get into veterinary or nursing college this year with your high school marks or through entrance tests.Sit down with your parents,tell them patiently why you want to pursue veterinary science or nursing(whichever field you exactly want to pursue),make them understand why pursuing engineering is difficult for you.Speak with conviction,confidence,passion.I'm sure that they'll support you when they realize you have genuine interest and you'll work hard for it .An engineering degree doesn't guarantee a job .It's a myth.Any work carried with passion guarantees success not a degree.End of the day you should pursue something which will make you happy. It is never too late to start something fresh or change paths. Cheers!!

It's okay, it's not the end of the world, you may get answers like you should do what you like and quit engineering but wait a min, nothing is too hard for any human if he/she focus on it and you can easily pass engineering with good grades with just pure focus, well then you can do anything you want to do, you know what, you are in a very interesting and adventurous state of life which i always want to be in, realize this fact and enjoy your adventure, it'll be good for you, it's like a test, you'll feel great after experiencing this experiment, enjoy the ride, you may not get such an opportunity in future (unless you're like me)

I think you have a plan. Of all the people who go into any occupation, the ones who do the best are those who enter it due to the natural passion they have for the field.  I know two brothers who are dentists.  One would have been a dentist even if it paid virtually nothing; the other was looking for something to do with his science degree.  The first one is wildly successful while the second struggles each day to get the will to face another line-up of clients. We are entering an era where people treat their pets like children, often spending thousands to keep them alive.  Someone who has a natural desire to enter the field will thrive.  I believe that it is a great time to be a vet, particularly one focusing on household pets.  Baby boomers are very strange people and they have money to burn and they definitely burn it on their pets.  I am a great example of that. Learning to quit something that isn't working is one of the more important skills we learn by our failures.  Those failures open the door to new opportunities.

You'll need an undergraduate degree to get into a veterinary medicine program. No matter what you study as an undergraduate, your courses will only open more doors rather than close them. You can still be a veterinarian even if your bachelor's degree is in engineering, and it'll look very impressive to the accredited schools of veterinary medicine if you can get your degree in engineering while also taking all the classes needed to give you a good foundation for veterinary medicine. If you can get a background in both, you'll be able to leverage your engineering background with your future training in veterinary medicine to help people and animals in new ways that other people can't (maybe in prosthetics, for example). That said, most universities will let you change your major, and many have excellent advisors who can help you decide how to make the change. The idea that anybody can be ready to choose their life path during their undergraduate years has been out of date for well over a decade by now. Many older people look back and laugh at their younger selves when they remember how uptight they were about such decisions during those years. The world changes quickly, and none of your choices are that permanent. Life will go through many twists and turns. Everybody will inevitably many huge mistakes over the course of their lives, but that only makes more room for other opportunities. The only way to go wrong is to bog down in regrets and dwell on mistakes in the past. Everybody makes mistakes, so just move forward. No matter what you do, that one year of engineering is only a tiny part of your life. If you think it was a mistake, then move on and don't let it take up any more of your life. Life is long enough for you to recover from any mistakes you make, but it's too short for dwelling on regrets and blowing them all out of proportion.