Useless degrees

I have a diploma in engineering which is totally useless and I should have a Computing Degree by the end of the year. I don't want to work in either industries at all. I am hoping I might be able to get a job doing scientific computing.

Scientific computing is obviously very mathematical. If your good with programming / developing F.E.M, Finite difference / volume methods then that's a good start. You don't need to be a computer expert for scientific computing initially (well you need to be able to program but scientific code is in general not the best written code out there) you need to learn the computing stuff at a high level eventually but the main requirement is the maths.