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“Student group organising is hard and important” by Bella

“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:

  1. 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.
  2. You’re probably trying to do a degree at the same time, which is hard enough on its own!
  3. You don’t have the structure and benefits provided by a regular 9-5 job at an organisation, like:
    1. A manager
    2. An office
    3. Operational support
    4. People you can ask for help & advice
    5. A network
  4. 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



Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zMBFSesYeyfDp6Fj4/student-group-organising-is-hard-and-important


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“Student group organising is hard and important” by Bella

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