Chemistry student here...

Chemistry student here. How do I make chem sound cool to others when physics has all the celebrity scientists and big projects?

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Make that compound (or whatever) that constantly changes colour. You might say "but user, that's completely vacuous and doesn't really demonstrate chemistry", to which I say "neither do those 'celebrity scientists'". As for the large projects, literally 99.9% of people lost interest in them when I explained that the Higgs boson doesn't [math] all [/math] matter mass, just 3 bosons that belong to the electroweak interaction.

I'm a math grad. When someone asks what I do and I tell them, the only response I ever hear is "I hate math."

I would actually prefer the neutral opinion that chemistry would have.

Let them read Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With"

i agree, do an experiment if you can. iodine clock is good.

I'm going into math. Is it really as bad as everyone says it is?

It depends on the kind of person I'm talking to in my experience. People outside academia assume it's boring, other students usually react with "wow that's really hard".

What compound is this?
t. non-chemistry expert

You don't, chemistry is gay and physics is superior and basically you should feel like a piece of shit brainlet

Universal indicator solution probably?