Freshman Danielle Carolan is new to Berkeley, but she’s actually pretty well known from running a popular YouTube channel specializing in makeup tutorials that has garnered almost 37,000 subscribers.

Q: Are you nervous about anything starting freshman year?

A: I was nervous to begin with. But since Berkeley has so many different things where you can meet all the freshmen, the first day isn’t that hard.

Q: Are you excited about anything in particular?

A: I’m excited just to meet new people and to have new opportunities.

Q: We’ve heard you run a pretty suc­cessful YouTube channel. How’d you get started with that?

A: Like three years ago I [wanted] to make fun videos and I found the beauty community, and I was like “I wanna do that!”

Q: Would you consider yourself “You­Tube famous”?

A: I don’t like to call myself that but a lot of people say that to me like “You’re YouTube famous!” But it’s pretty cool because I’ll be at the mall and people will be like “Are you themakeup-by­danielle?” or like take pictures and stuff.

Q: What does running you YouTube channel entail?

A: I try to post at least once a week. First you gotta make the video…edit it, then you have to upload it, respond to comments.

Q: Do you get to interact with your fan base through comments?

A: Yeah, it’s really fun to get to know them. It’s really inspiring for me.

Though she’s new to Berkeley with her charm and enthusiasm, Danielle is sure to shine on campus!