Organizing a simple 5 person event is a major effort and usually complicated by numerous and completely avoidable problems like miscommunicated facts, failure to note details and contingencies, delays, duplication of effort, failure to document or convey basic and relevant facts, ignorance and misuse of resources... and there is a tremendous amount of fixing-up (BY ME)to make it work in the end.
I go through this DAILY.
I will say too, that none of them has any conception of HOW accounting works... it's inconceivable to them why and HOW the pizza for their ‘event’ appears AT the event or HOW and by whom it will be paid for. Something THAT simple is beyond their capabilities. These people are near graduation and will have Ph.D. after their names..... scary.
They can get government jobs!