I just wanted to gather some opinions for an idea I have been toying with.
As of right now I’m a high school senior just starting to receive decisions from schools. I am going to college to become an engineer, and am in no way a super duper smart kid. Instead, I would label myself an above average intelligence kid that’s passionate about engineering. I was poking around the interwebs to find videos about students like myself that are in college that document their experiences and such all the way through their college career, but I came up with very little. I found most YouTube channels like this were of kids at M.I.T or Cornell. Nothing is wrong with that, but I feel like many kids can’t relate to that. So I’m here thinking, “wow, maybe it would be a great idea for me to do that”. My thinking behind this is that other students interested in finding out what going to college for engineering is really like. I would post these videos to YouTube, and they would be about college tours I have attended, my credentials and what colleges I got accepted/rejected from, “day in the life videos”, etc.
Just speak your thoughts! All criticism is welcomed!
Thanks!
Big fan of YouTube here. Honestly, on that site you have to be able to market yourself and become a favorite of the algorithm. I’ve found some very interesting channels…but vlogging is kind of old, IMO. Literally, I can’t think of anything interesting someone talking about being an engineering student would have to say about engineering. It may be worthwhile to make a channel about MOTIVATING engineering students while also sharing a part of your life.
The biggest thing I found soul sucking about mechanical engineering in school was that it was very difficult to make it on your own and that I had to have a support network. I don’t think that really exists yet as far as I know on YouTube. I just see anti-X career channels and then a lot of channels promoting the lifestyle of software engineers (which I am a software engineer). When I came back to school for an MS in ME, I quit. I did not have a support network and just couldn’t muster up enough motivation to get through it. Switched to MS in CECS and I am having a better time going it alone because my “support network” are my new-ish coworkers where I started my job last year back in June. They’re big nerds and love hearing about my programming assignments.