Question for Programmers

I'm a recent freshman in college currently wanting to persue a CS major, but the things I've been hearing from people have been worrying. See, the reason I wanted to get into CS was because I really like programming. Back in high school I taught myself C++ from books, and love making things like it work. I've even started having fun with Windows GUI programming.

The problem is, everyone tells me that CS is not about programming, it's all about logic diagrams and math, both of which I can do, but don't really enjoy. The CS course I'm in right now though DOES have programming (Although we use ADA, which I hate every line of, although I guess it isn't Java.)

In all, I guess I want to be a programmer, not another math robot. I love programming, and can do it, but math bores the hell out of me. Luckily my Univ only requires up to 200 level math for a CS major, so I wouldn't have to deal with it for THAT long.

My question is, should I be looking into CS? I honestly just want to program, and was told that having a degree in this is the best way to find a job doing that.

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Algebra is really more just boring shit like figuring out what X is in an overly complex word problem.
FTFY. Algebra and arithmetic are a tiny fraction of math. They don't actually teach you what math is in public school, because it's such a general concept that it's hard to explain.

Programming is a type of math, but obviously not a type of algebra. However, refactoring is more or less the same thing as algebra. If you spend a lot of time programming in a language that encourages lots of refactoring and makes it easy to think about, you'll find that you've mysteriously gotten better at algebra for no apparent reason.

Finding and learning such a language is left as an exercise to the reader.