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Summer Symposiumtakes place somewhere between sports and smoking.~18 o’clock. Most of the Year1 students dreams to get to theHowever, the weather showed its importance for outsidequarterfinal or to get at least 5 cs were ruined. They wereactivities - it was raining from time to time and thealready thinking that next year there will be another Year1 totemperature wasn’t higher that in Estonia during the summer. suck in sports. Next year this Year1 will not be like this year –It even began to seem colder as the day went by. The moreworse are coming each year.cold it got, the more tea was consumed. By the way, selling~20 o’clock. The culmination – the basketball final started. Ittea was the only successful business at the summerwas pretty dark, but some good people provided the pitchsymposium. All the others, especially catering, were crucialwith some light from their cars. It was so light that one wasfailures. Selling 5 sandwiches out of 50 is not a successful wayeven able to see Mažeikis with a ball. In the final Lithuanianof doing business (this might be a business in The Sovietteam beat Latvians. That’s not only because Lithuania is aUnion, but not in The European Union). The main reason forbetter country. This was because Lithuanians play basketballsuch EBP businesses failures was overestimation of summerbetter. However, the overall winner of the summersymposium market – people came there to have some sportssymposium was Latvian team. And also Estonians were veryand they usually don’t bring their wallets while wearinggood at… After all the matches we went to drink near the fire.sportswear. Any extra gram in sports can have a huge impactThe fireplace was the second most successful EBP project in(especially if that gram is dope ;) ).the summer symposium – it had the least budget deficit, even~16 o’clock. As the time went by, more and more Year1 teams without any income.began to look sad and drunk. It’s hard to compete against the~24 o’clock. Drinking, dances… I lost my watch. Lithuaniansprofessionals (especially if they are from Latvia’s nationalwon the litter-ball. Latvians (Martins especially) danced.“Tautas Bumba” team). And almost all the Lithuanians areEstonians… It was chilly outside.professionals in basketball. And almost all Estonians areprofessionals in… However, the other thing why Year1 looked ~26 o’clock. more 0 to the income statement. By the way, some food~12 o’clock. I found my watch. I’m near SSE Riga building. As Ibegan to look and smell as if it needed to be depreciated.understand this year’s symposium ended. Hopefully, nextyear I’ll will not be so trashy in it – I’ll be Year2. Can’t wait…20|INSIDER September 2007