By The Eva Monkey on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Every year UMBC awards approximately $50,000 to undergraduate students to pursue self-directed research in an area of their choosing, from sciences like Biology, to arts like Dance. Given my desire to write a book on Evangelion as a sort of capstone to my journey and devotion to the show over the past six years, I decided to apply for one of these awards. Sadly, I did not win an award, and moreover, this was my last opportunity. I almost did not want to apply, aware of the obvious outcome, that due to grades and an interest in writing about “Japanese cartoons” that I had little chance of being awarded with anything. The $1,500 would have helped quite a bit, giving me funds to be able to have translation work done. Even though I knew it would turn out like this, I had a desperate hope that I had a shot. I’m very dissapointed, and uncertain how to proceed from here, but I refuse to back down from my aspirations over the past years.