Fellow translation students in my year are planning to make a translation association in our university to gain fund for various projects and attending translation conferences. The problem is we don’t know where to begin and since it’s summer break, people are back home and/or working. Professors tell us to hurry up (and they’re right) but we’re so lost and not enough people in our year seem motivated. Just like Jung Gook and the gang didn’t know how to make a bill, we don’t know where to start. We thought summer wasn’t going to be stressful 😭

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    Is there a manual from your school about how to go about starting an association? Or an office you could go to at the school like Student Services that could help with that? Then, while some people work on getting it started, some others could start doing research on the conferences that you want to attend – dates, cost, etc. If the goal is to get funds you definitely have to develop a solid proposal on how going to conferences can benefit students – basically justify the funds being given. I have no suggestions for lack of motivated classmates though 🙁 Conferences are fun and educational, so I hope you get through. Good luck!

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      We have Student Services but we need to work more on our proposal, be more concrete and determine how we can participate on the campus events (a condition to be approved). As a student association, we need to do something as counterpart for other students. I have a small idea but we need more people. We are actually 5 people invested but we can’t build it on our own. If we can’t make a proposal during summer, we’ll have to reach to newcomers. We’re hoping to find members very soon to take over because we’re all graduating next year. In a sense, we do it more for the new students than for us. It must be why not a lot of people want to be invested.

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        That makes sense. I think most people are propably more concerned about what happens after graduation at this point. Reaching out to newcomers is not a bad idea. Attending and participating in conferences was one of the highlights of university for me, so I think it would be great for you all to go, and to pave the way for others as well. What languages do you translate, may I ask?

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          We went to a German translation event before summer break and loved it. We want other students to have opportunities to interact with professionals, that’s the also one of the main reasons for creating the association.

          I translate from German and a bit of English to French. There are students who translate from Spanish too.

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