Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...make on average one trade per week [and] we're not afraid to jump in and out of a stock in a short amount time," he says. "During last summer, we made over 100 percent on a stock that we held for less than three days. It turned out to be one of our biggest winners of the year...
...keep planning ahead, with all the certainty and assurance of an expert trader last November. I hedge my bets, indulge myself, anticipate--all weeks, months, seasons in advance. I had, for example, a summer job in September. Some of this is due to accident (my summer job was a natural continuation of the term-time one), and some to the kind of advanced planning that seems, here, to be a matter of survival...
Indeed, when it comes to the Planning Game, I'm stuck in the minor leagues. Classmates' parents were reserving hotel rooms for Commencement the day the admissions acceptance cards were sent. Memorial Church, famously, is booked years ahead for weddings. MCATs taken the summer before junior year test knowledge that will be applied two years later and beyond. These actions, in turn, are not unreasonable; they emerge as necessary only because so many people consider them...
...kids. The two six-day sessions run during June, July and August at a rustic 80-acre camp near St. Helen in wooded northern Michigan. Costs start at $650 for one person and one dog bunking together. Virginia Venning of Chicago, and her Sheltie Peaches were scouts together last summer. Says she: "It gave me the chance to live and play with my dog off leash in a safe environment...
...whiskey, no matter how expensive, just tastes like burning. Yet deep inside I long to sleep around, to kick some ass, to release my first rap album. As I saw it, I had little choice but to score some of that testosterone gel when it comes out this summer. I could keep it in my jacket pocket for emergency situations, next to my lip balm and antibacterial hand gel. I'm thinking about marketing this as a first-aid kit for wusses...