You might think next to nothing. If you did, I bet you'd reconsider after reading this article
here's a short excerpt form the article:
"They are known as "quants" because they do quantitative finance. Seduced by a vision of mathematical elegance underlying some of the messiest of human activities, they apply skills they once hoped to use to untangle string theory or the nervous system to making money."
I found it so interesting to see the correlation between these very important areas of study. As a math dork myself, any application of math to everyday life intrigues me. Most people think of math as a boring class filled with busy work that will get you nowhere in life. However, people like these have been impacting our world in ways we have no idea. I personally commend these men and women for doing what i aspire to do when i get older: to apply mathematical logic to my profession, and to apply it in a way that greatly influences many people.
That's what I thought too, until I recently found out that one of my homecoming groups is going all out on everything! Now I find myself spending cash left and right for every little thing imaginable, and some things not-so-cheap. On top of it all, I'm going to both Glenbrook North's and Glenbrook South's homecoming. Not to say that I'm upset about that, but I can see the cringe in my parent's expressions whenever i bring up homecoming, because they already know that I'm going to ask them to open up their wallets once more. You might think I'm overreacting, but let's just take a second to tally up my homecoming expenses at the moment.