Hi anime fans! We're so excited to formally welcome you back for another semester of anime viewing!
Meetings are still in a hybrid format this semester--for those who are comfortable attending in-person meetings, we will be meeting from 6-11 pm in Engineering 027. Interactions and voting will still be held primarily on Discord; we will primarily be streaming the Discord call in the room. For those who are still interested in viewing in-person, proper face masks aligning with UMBC's masking policy of N95 or equivalent are REQUIRED for this event and all subsequent in-person meetings. For those who are uncomfortable with meeting in a large group or cannot make this time in-person, feel free to join our Discord server and watch along virtually during the same time frame! Here's the link to join if you haven't already joined the server:
We will be discussing club policies including our continued COVID-19 requirements for in-person meetings, future events, and showing all attendees an example of how a typical meeting runs. We'll also be showing a surprise movie at the end of the meeting, so stick around to find out what it is!
A couple weeks from now, it'll be Nomination Night, where we watch the first episodes of 10 anime suggested by you all and vote on which titles we want to watch regularly through the semester. More details will be presented at our meeting tonight and when we're closer to the date, so keep an eye out for announcements about Nomination Forms!
Finally, to make the club more inclusive and help understand the needs of our attendees, we have made an anonymous feedback form that you can find here. This is totally private and is just to help us know what we can do better to make the club the best experience it can be for everyone on campus! Feel free to fill out the form here: https://tinyurl.com/uasfeedbacksp22
We are so excited to welcome both new and returning members to the club--we hope you find a sense of community here at the UMBC Anime Society with other anime fans and have a great semester. We hope to see you in Engineering 027 or on Discord tomorrow night!