I agree with what many are already saying a degree in CS seems a bit redundant with your expertise. Consider Math, Physics or Electrical Engineering. Not only will a BS in any of the subjects get your foot in the door your work experience will be more or less a second degree in the eyes of your future employers. Also your expertise wont be so narrowly defined and it may open up more job opportunities. Further you may find you really love the subject that you study in school.

The proposed ship would be starship Enterprise in the same sense the space shuttle Enterprise is the star ship enterprise. Not really a star ship if it can't travel between the stars... So why spend 20 years and 1 trillion dollars building a ship to explore the solar system? I think it would be much cheaper, quicker and more feasible to simply build an armada of probes to explore great tracts of the solar system in a much shorter period of time for much less money then a single ship flying from world to world.

The technology exhibited here is completely independent of the fuel source on which it runs. Your comment misses the point.

I went ahead and calculated the velocity of the comet at its Perihelion (closest distance to the sun) to be or 618km/s which is the same as 383 mi/s which is the same as 0.2% the speed of light, very fast!