“Student group organising is hard and important” by Bella
Update: 2025-09-12
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It's been several years since I was an EA student group organiser, so please forgive any part of this post which feels out of touch (& correct me in comments!)
Wow, student group organising is hard.
A few structural things that make it hard to be an organiser:
- You maybe haven’t had a job before, or have only had kind of informal jobs. So, you might not have learned a lot of stuff about how to accomplish things at work.
- You’re probably trying to do a degree at the same time, which is hard enough on its own!
- You don’t have the structure and benefits provided by a regular 9-5 job at an organisation, like:
- A manager
- An office
- Operational support
- People you can ask for help & advice
- A network
- You have, at most, a year or so to skill up before you might be responsible [...]
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First published:
September 12th, 2025
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