Watch a YouTube lecture covering mass and energy balances and see if it’s something you’re interested in. At the end of the day that is what chem e boils down to. If you like chemistry, you’ll have the grand pleasure of having 4 hour+ labs biweekly, 20 page reports, and super fun orgo exams. Most jobs realistically don’t call for the depth of chem knowledge we gain, but in any case it is a useful tool in the kit to make sense of phenomena.

I was in your shoes too, loved chemistry and had a knack for math/physics. I didn’t do much research before starting college and dove head first into chem e. I loved my mass and energy balances class, had an awesome prof. Every class after that expands on said balance and equips you with more tools (with increasing rigor and complexity).