Hello all, I apologize if this isn't the best place to ask questions, but I recently acquired the Sims 2 Ultimate collection and have been running into very frequent crashing issues.
The game launches just fine and is entirely playable if I just save every 5 minutes. But consistently will run into crashing problems every 15-20 minutes of gameplay. I have had no pink flashing issues, the game runs fine in full screen for me despite the 800x600 aspect ratio. I don't really care to try to improve the game, I just want to make it stop crashing to desktop and playable so that I can relive a part of my childhood. The crashes specifically seem to be 2 types: A crash where the game freezes and so does my computer largely, a hard manual closing of the game is the only way out of it. Or, a windows popup that says "the application has crashed. The application will now terminate" with both happening sometimes at complete random, or especially if I try to enter the neighborhood mode or switch neighborhoods.
Any solutions to just make the game stable?

Sorry if someone already asked this, but since the day of the major update, I’ve been curious if ANYONE from the Niantic camp has spoken on why they decided to go in the direction they went in.
I saw in a Twitter reply under a complaint say that a dev from Niantic asked the public what they think of the update but when they were flooded with grievances, they never responded. I can’t find that post but I would like to pick this individuals brain and I’m not sure how to find other affiliates of Niantic.
I’m not in the best mood right now, and looking at my box of an avatar with a bulging crotch and bird chest is not helping. Some answers would though.

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I’m a 22 year old man and haven’t been in a relationship since right after high school. I’ve been interested in a girl that’s only a year or so younger than me, so similar phase of life. I’ve been tempted to ask her out, but I don’t have a driver’s license and I feel like that means I’d be asking a lot out of a partner
I generally know how to drive, just haven’t done it enough to feel comfortable and have been procrastinating getting my license for awhile. I’m not exactly embarrassed about it, though I do feel guilty about always needing someone else to pick me up.
Where I live doesn’t really have accessible public transit. I was wondering if people feel it’d be selfish and irresponsible to try entering relationships in this situation. I’m not assuming I’d have a shot in the first place, I’d honestly be totally cool with rejection, I’ve had my fill, but I still feel guilty about the idea of trying to pursue anything

We’ve already donated a ton of clothing and household goods but have some higher end branded clothing that is barely used. I used to just stroll on down to Hawthorne, but I’m not sure there are still places buying clothes. Where is the best place to sell clothes these days based on value/time/customer service? I’d prefer something in SE, but am open to going into downtown as well. Thanks!

I'm a college student and I've never used credit card in my whole life (only debit card)
I'm trying to rent a studio in Chicago but from my research it seems like a lot of places are owned by corporate and they check credits? am I out of luck? or can I show them my bank balance? or pay upfront? will that work for most apartments owner?
This is my first time renting, I'm currently not in Chicago, but will fly to Chicago once Fall semester starts in August, I'm quite nervous as I don't have a car so I'll really have to find an apartments that'd accept me asap, otherwise I'll have to live in airbnb or something like that.
If it's gonna be really hard to rent a studio without credit and job, is my best choice is to find a room to rent/live with roommates?
Is renting a room less harsh on checking credit/income/job? (I'm talking about posts/student that already lives there, but need a roommate to share the rent fee, you know those posts on facebook group)
Any help is appreciated, first time living alone without a car is scary😭

I don't know how to say this, usually, it's the easiest thing for me to say. This time it's hard because, I can't think of many people that will care, or maybe not. due to what I know is becoming more and more inevitable by the day. I can't keep this up. Everything falls apart, my health….. not healthy at all. Not only do I feel it, but it shows. I'm homeless, because talking to one of the 2 people I thought would never betray me, I was wrong about. Not once have I been able to express how I felt how uncomfortable the whole situation made me. She's just get all pissed of. So at first she would take him somewhere during her shift. That feels a little better because I could be home alone or grab an Uber and get the hell out of there overnight I'll invite my own for and over so that I'm not so alone That didn't work out either sorry being at the house all the time I'd wake up to him walking by go to the bathroom because I'm in the living room with a couch he didn't pay for anything he's offer me money for anything for the internet for nothing. A while she reallyreally wanted me to pay half the rent. She wanted us to be able to have the same dynamic Wait not us she wanted to feel like she had the same dynamic she even had the nerve to tell me one night that when I was at home it makes her nervous so she's going to bring Sam over I'm sure that was as big a lie as it was whenever she told me that he was staying somewhere else because I wanted to talk to her about how soon I was going to die. She even blew that off she didn't even look at me the whole time I was trying to explain to her she doesn't didn't even know what I was talking about kept watching her phone and picking it up and finally I said well man if you need to go pick him up go get him before I can even finish the sentence she had the car started. And I tried and kept on trying to be friendly with him and I thought he was friendly with me but then I hear some of the remarks he would make to her and being mad cuz I kept the car but wait I just moved in he doesn't pay anything I had just put gas in that car. My sister never talk to me about any of this. She would just get mad because one day I said something about him shaving his hair and leaving the hair over the bathroom and she rolled her eyes in me and walked off. But my point is who cleans that me. I'd be cleaning the kitchen and you walk up and drop addition sink right in front of me. They're both constantly so high they don't know what they're doing so I guess it's a good thing it's not being there cuz I don't want to get in trouble if you get busted You smell that shit down the driveway. Just progressively worse and then one morning I started getting real upset and so I stopped the internet from working in their room because no one else is ever paid for it. Starving I was nervous to have to go anywhere because she get pissed off or she'd have to wait let me check with him. She blew up on me in the middle of the day mind you we're in Texas it's 85 90°. So she goes outside and start screaming at me and slams the door in my face and locks it and just before she met him she didn't shoot me like that she's kind of standoffish about Corey sometimes but hell. I said some mean things things that I shouldn't have said things that didn't mean I wanted us to be friends again I want her to be my sister before I die! Family shouldn't be like that. So she decided to text my mom that's what got us into the big fight, Mom wouldn't leave me alone. Just kept on and kept on y'all need to work it out every time something was bothering me and I want to talk y'all need to work it out You need to just relax she's under a lot of stress. You're not the easiest to deal with. That feels the best because I don't want my baby sister taking care of me. It's not supposed to be that way I'm supposed to die before she has to do that. So anyways I'm at a friend's now I had chemo last week and God for that friend because that's who got me a chemo and has been keeping the roof of my head while it's storming and I'm suffering. And all this time I'm supposed to just keep kind of keep my head up. She hasn't even tried to reach out oh except for reaching out to say that I took the internet out of the house. I think my biggest fear right now is that. I'm going to live much longer than I'm hoping right now.

Hi everyone I will be attending Caltech in the fall and have many questions on getting in to quant finance. I know there are different roles in quant finance that may have different degree requirements, but I’m not sure which role I would pursue so please try and help in general.

1. Do I major in math or applied math?
   
2. Should I attend grad school? If so then would a masters in financial engineering or applied math be better?
   
3. If I choose applied math for undergrad I can pick one of the following concentrations: Probability & Statistics, Analysis and PDEs, or Mathematical Modeling. Which concentration would be best for a MFE candidate to have?
   
4. I can also pick a application area from the following: learning & vision, graphics, robotics, environmental science, business and finance, or mechanics. Im assuming business and finance would be a good path?
   
5. How much could I expect to make with an undergrad at caltech in applied math and a masters in financial engineering at a top school? Are $500,000+ jobs realistic?
   
6. How important is it to take computer science classes?
   
7. Any advice?
   

Thank you all!

Hi everyone I will be attending Caltech in the fall and have many questions on getting in to quant finance. I know there are different roles in quant finance that may have different degree requirements, but I’m not sure which role I would pursue so please try and help in general.

1. Do I major in math or applied math?
   
2. Should I attend grad school? If so then would a masters in financial engineering or applied math be better?
   
3. If I choose applied math for undergrad I can pick one of the following concentrations: Probability & Statistics, Analysis and PDEs, or Mathematical Modeling. Which concentration would be best for a MFE candidate to have?
   
4. I can also pick a application area from the following: learning & vision, graphics, robotics, environmental science, business and finance, or mechanics. Im assuming business and finance would be a good path?
   
5. How much could I expect to make with an undergrad at caltech in applied math and a masters in financial engineering at a top school? Are $500,000+ jobs realistic?
   
6. How important is it to take computer science classes?
   
7. Any advice?
   

Thank you all!

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so i’m in vault 88 designing and decorating, i happen to place a vault boy statue down and he made an animation sounds, at first i was tripping out because i thought i was hearing things, that was until i moved him over slightly and it did it again. i just NOW found out that the vault statues make the sounds!
i recorded a clip to post, but the sound isn’t in it, from what i learned, it’s an in game sound only and clipping it won’t pick the sound up. which is a bummer because i definitely don’t want to make a clip from my phone. but y’all should definitely try it out yourselves! it’s a neat feature i guess haha

This is going to be a long one so heads up.
A bit of back story; I started dating my husband when I was 15. I chased this boy thorugh hell and back just to get a chance. Problems between us were immediate but didn't seem significant at the time. A few months into our relationship he had an adult "friend" that was telling him he needed to get control of me or "put me in my place" (referencing he should hit me). He didn't but the ego it gave him was a hard battel. 8 months into our relationship my mother forced me to move states because I was starting the process of emancipation and she didn't like that. I was still going through with it, it was just a buffer. 2 weeks after I left he was flirting with my friends. We were on and off for 3 months long distance before I said I had enough. When my emancipation was complete (6 months after I moved and about 3 months after we officially split) I let him know because we were still in touch. It was a few days after that he decided he wanted to try things again and came to me. Just a few days of being with me he decided he wanted to go home, with or without me. I reluctantly agreed to go with him even though I was comfortable where I was. We stayed in a trailer for months in the snow with no power or heat but I toughed it out. Eventually we moved in with his family. During that time he broke up with me multiple times to mess aground with other girls. We ended up moving again and he would be gone all the time hanging out with his friends. There were nights I would beg him, crying, for him to just come home and he would refuse We ended up moving again and spent some time with my family (i was 17). 3 days in he called his mom to have someone pick him up. He regretted it and I went and picked him up and brought him back. A few months after that he decided to leave again. 3 days later I was feeling weird. I just had an odd feeling, I didn't miss my period or anything but I had a friend get me a pregnancy test anyway. It came out positive. I didn't want kids, I never did. But I decided to keep the baby because he wanted to. He promised a better life. So he comes and picks me up and we move back in with his family. Everything was going great. Then I miscarried. After the miscarriage he was upset, he was really excited about having a kid. We talk about it and he talked me into trying for one on purpose, his family agreed with this. He promised to drop the weed, drop the beer, get a job and work his ass off for us. That never really happened. So here I am 17, and 5 months pregnant, he has 3 tall cans of beer in his system and starts being an ass. We get into it and he lays his hands on me. I locked him out of the room that night. So he finally drops the alcohol for good. We end up moving again. We got married the day I turned 18 because of his religious family. We fought about the weed and he "quit". But in reality he was just doing it behind my back. He would get mad at me for calling people out on their fake service dogs (I have a service dog and the fakes put me at great risk). He held a job for a really long time, making good money, and spoiling the shit out of me. Eventually we argue about the weed again. I almost left but he said he wouldn't be doing it anymore. Then again we argue about the weed, this time I agree to let him have dab carts. 2 a week. He ended up with between 3-5 a week. Things were really good for a long time after that.
Keep in mind everything I listed was not the entire relationship. Between all these bad moments there are lots of great ones. I have thousands of happy pictures and videos of us.
Now to recently. We moved back to our hometown. He spent a lot of time hanging out with his buddies and leaving me with the baby. He started smoking flower again and had the sudden urge to drink again. I was alone 90% of the time. So where do I go? I have a boy best friend that has been through hell and back with me since the first day of middle school. So I spent a lot of time hanging out with him while my husband was off fucking around like a child. Then the weird questions came in. "Are you doing anything with him while I'm gone?" "Your not cheating on me right?" Ect. No I wasn't. About a week ago I told my bsf I was picking him up from work. While I was in the parking lot waiting my husband calls insiting I pick him up first. I told him no because I didn't have room in the car for both and I was already there waiting. Well that started this whole fit about how asking him to wait 10 minutes was prioritizing my bsf over my husband. Eventually we get to my friends house, and my husband was waiting for us. He was just talking shit and being an ass for 20 minutes before he decided to leave in MY CAR. We argue over text for a while and then he tells me he's done with me. Fine. I give up. I don't care anymore. Then 30 minutes later he's accusing me of cheating with my bsf. He has told all his friends and family that I'm a hoe (my body count is 2 including him and the other one is NOT my bsf). My bsf has been doing his best to take care of me and help me out. Feeding me, taking over the baby, putting gas in my car, letting me stay the night. He's been a life saver for me.
Now it's a week later and he's asking if there is a chance we can work things out in the future... I love him I really do. He has lots of issues tho but so do I. My BPD makes me hard to handle sometimes as do my other mental and health problems.
I'm sure I know what the answer is already but what do I do? I'm a mess.

One of the difficulties of balancing this game is that its drastically different depending on what difficulty you play on. Atm I think we can all agree everything is viable below difficulty 5, but at 9 their is only a small pool of options that solve issues the game demands at that point. We know that if we buff everything up some top tier options for difficulty 9 will actually break/trivialize difficulty at lower difficulties. So with that in mind, Why not have different weapon and stratagem performance for difficulties above say 7? This sounds mad, but it lets us pull on the best selection of levers for each difficulty. Lower the shots to kill by one for pretty much all weapons, lower stratagem cd, give us op ELITE only helldivers, call em brashs' bunch or RICOs rouchnecks as an in game explanation of the difference. That will decrease the diffuclty at higher levels, which seems counter intuitive, but it would let us ABSOLUTELY MAX the spawn rates of the engine. Let us SSWIM in gnashing BUGs, Let rockets BLOT OUT THE SUN, LET US be those helldivers that only live 2 minutes but get the kill streak of one who lived for 20.
I would also double the difficulty of objectives on multiplayer missions. If you have 2+ people in a mission some objectives should have two terminals so that if you have 2 terminals, one does the regular stuff and the other has the option to bonus but non misssion critical information for games and theory/military intelligence. If its just a gold sticker at the end that is placed on you but then stripped off because there is no official public record for our super secret side op.

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Moments Missed Dark empaths bright apathy given to shallow searches of imaginary places to curl up and die. soft forest fern garden gently dappled in bedding of moss; evening shadows fanned between frond spears of comforting space springs rests breathlessness. high canopies familiar presence soft as maples light green hues and saplings recluve, seeded true. salmon berry flowers pink thimble drinking in essence closed eyes dreamily lay skin scented arms life can fall through blissed.
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Shill
Why do I want to know so well
Swallow your essence, till I feel
Stare at your black and white, eye pierced by the night and fright gives way, chill
Why do I want to kill off me in you to fullfill
Trees feeding from devoid will
While stones never touched, do appeal
To the Dreams of towards still
When times suffocate instead of spill, for just another hill
Quickened in the stead of nill
Calms calamity finality, real
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November Ween
Hair falling over cliffs, kinship akin to the oceans gentle ebb and flow setting seasides aglow
Toes slipping in soft wave sandals
Colors fading on the shaded stairs with many cares and bewares
Mountains kissed quiet subtly
Where hopes are dashed, the sun is seldom seen in the November ween
Cove birds bemoan the cities groaning grey
These are the days, trees solemn sit. Fond memories quickly outgrown
Cold lead astray in the heart of yearning
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December Moon
for every cold rose, dawn breaks upon, tendrils of love ply to unravel for that they're fond. dew drops reflecting view, upside down, while hearts unbeknowst yearnings drown. gone, drawn by heed, falling yet not freed, reserved hearts fed lorn regret. if the seldom indebted, were beseeching the beset, without let, should one have met with harmony's bet. unfettered calm, fearing naught, not knowing where woes bound. caught in the net of dream, ever will's redeeming gleam, piercing through the seamed. hopes given to seed, held like woven bead, as rippled web on the mirrored water, wavers glooms fodder. stark as night be, peaking through dark tree and shadows loom, of clouds swift and subtle boon, nothing belies, the December moon.
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loves loss was a glance compared to the enchanted stare I caste undoubtingly from afar a dubious natures angle. squared equinox still in beauties moment so that eternity can continue.

Trying to get the most out of my NAS and the question arose. Where is best to install apps?
The system drive (default) The same drive as the data the app may access? A dedicated nvme drive just for apps separate from the other two?
Thoughts are appropriated.

TLDR: I thought I found the ring I wanted online, but am now custom designing one. Do I redesign the ring I liked online or create my own? I also have no idea what design I’d like. Feel free to post how you chose your ring, what your dream ring is, or any advice you have for me. TIA
I originally made a post asking about what ring to get online. It’s been a couple months and we decided to go to a jewelry shop to get ideas on how the online ring would look.
Reddit highly recommended this specific place in my area so we walked in on Saturday. We thought we’d be in and out in 30 minutes and go order the ring online. Two hours later, were custom designing a ring with them and have another appointment this weekend.
During the first appointment I decided that I wanted a one carat diamond and rose gold. I like minimalist, but also I like sparkle and uniqueness but I want it to still be timeless. Yeah, I don’t know either, lol.
I’m really excited to design the ring but I also have no freaking idea what I want since the options are limitless.
Currently, I’m basically redesigning the CatBird ring I initially thought I wanted. I’m so glad we went to the shop because the CatBird ring’s main stone is half a carat. I’ve never ring shopped before and am unsure if I should just recreate the CatBird ring or come up with something else.
I’m also nervous because the appointment is on Saturday and I’m completely lost and directionless. I did random internet searches and didn’t find anything I loved. I remember the first time seeing the Catbird ring and thinking it was so pretty. It’s very simple and I haven’t seen anything else I like more. But I have the opportunity to do anything. I just don’t have much inspiration. My partner just tells me pick whatever I like, which doesn’t help because I don’t know.
Anyway, free to post how you chose your ring, what your dream ring is, or any advice you have for me. TIA

Having spent a few dozen hours in the game & menu loading a save file that had 230 gold bricks……. I realized how frustrating this game was and the potential it could’ve had. I just am at a loss for words on the game. This game had SO MUCH POTENTIAl but had too much focus on the toys, & bugs or game breaking engine problems.
I haven't touched dimensions in a hot minute but.. really wish lego added more PATCHES before they shut down the game & wish it got its own remastered lego game without the toys…. or some version with a % meter & better save system…. Feel like if TT worked longer on it, they could have been better fixes with the game & the other lego ip dlc’s.
I noticed a few times HOW ANNOYED I was when my many save files from 2019, 2023, & 2024 all were gone….. on ps4 I just gave up caring and was disappointed.
Starting with the dlc's i noticed things felt off like each dlc was the weakest or too short for a game entry story, or more specifically the simpsons one recreating the episode with homer & the chilli cook off, of all the new story levels it felt weird. All the other lego film games got it down very well gameplay wise so, why not lego batman movie have its own game...? ALSO THE PUZZLES THE COLOR PUZZLES THE KEYSTONES all annoying. DOING THEM EVERY DAM TIME I GOT SOOOOOO BORED… decent game, fun worlds, annoying locking content in it and no 100% to finish. Only letting the player use a character…. That was Dedicated TO THAT SPECIFIC world locking you out… is annoying also cant access mini-kits without said character… This is not fun TT….
The best level was probably fantastic beasts & that could’ve & should have been added in its own lego Hogwarts FB saga game.
I enjoyed the lego ninjago game more then I thought I would, & the first lego movie game was cool just felt weird they put Lego Batman movie in dimensions vs its own separate actual lego game.
The movie scene cutscenes for each dlc were recreated in the dimensions in-game engine. Very disappointing as the quality difference is very noticeable. On the contrary, The LEGO Movie Game used movie cutscenes beautifully and it worked out really well. Could be a licensing issue, but if not I have no idea why they didn’t just use movie cutscenes where they could. I understand not wanting to release 60% of the movie in the game, but they could always shape it around the scenes shown in the trailer. The batman story pack felt like devs rushed it…. Not bringing actors back for discount va’s. Robin sounds like a kid in this dlc not anything like Michael cera. I can understand if they didn't get every one back for the game for rights or contract issues but just was weird. & newt or the FB story were interesting using new keystone & magic abilties. The ghostbuster ones were weird since I never cared for the movie..
There are a few differences like In the dlc levels, Batman is picked up by Alfred outside the power plant and heads directly to Commissioner Gordon's retirement party. In the film, he heads home and the retirement party is the next evening.
Some of the voice work is off. Many characters don’t sound like they did in the movie (I know they’re different VA’s) Alfred sounds nothing like movie Alfred (Ralph Fiennes), Robin sounds nothing like movie Robin (Michael Cera), etc. Other LEGO projects have had fairly good voice replication.
The LEGO Batman Movie expansion is all and all a success. It’s given us the best portal base so far, as well as the first expansion to give us 2 mini-figures which are both great. The game is great and funny as well as a decent length. The game only suffers from occasional bugs and terrible voice acting.
Maybe I just really disliked the keystone puzzles but I was really disappointed in it overall. The scenes were funny bringing in joker & all the villains, I enjoyed seeing the gremlins & agent smith from matrix & sauron’s eye but wish they made a lego Batman game not within dimensions.
If you want to play around in the LEGO Batman Movie HUB world you can access to the HUB world for maximum fun. Id say just try the hub level if you are interested but I felt bored with the lego batman movie game dlc levels. Sadly its REPLAY-Ability was a 5… compared to fantastic beasts and others.
imagine what they could've done with a full roster of batman's villains & heroes in a full open linear game with gotham, & sure we've had tons of batman games but just loved will arnett's version of batman. I really love will arnett so felt like dimensions needed more of that batman.
Too much clutter & focus on building vehicles when they aren't all that interesting or useful…. Switching from the ecto car to the ghost trap each time felt stupid. Even tho they fixed it in 2016 with the characters instant traps. Flying characters freak out when you are next to the edge of the map & fall off repeatedly or just stand there hovering… did NO ONE THINK about patching that?
No percent on gold bricks collected, or the items…. Why couldn’t they added a save system where if you lose your file you can save & quit with the bricks you found why is it on ps4 ps5…. Somehow deleting the game doesn’t remember where you left off?? Was this a patch that they never fixed?
Also, anyone else find it weird that the courtroom from Ghostbusters 2 isn't in the world? They even have the whole Titanic, something that only appears for 30 seconds in the movie, but one of the most important scenes isn't in the world at all or hell adding more side characters or locations why not explore inside of a building?
Also X-PO talks too much, every line of him talking during hints. I've made the choice to leave the main campaign unfinished just so he can stay silent while I play other levels. In the actual campaign and cutscenes he's fine but they made a huge mistake making him react to puzzles.
The bugs and lack of polish ruin the game..massively this is a massively outdated engine and the more they keep adding to it the buggier the games get. I'd love to see a new one built from the ground up for next gen capable created of anything they can think of with some impressive graphics. When you look at the fidelity of ratchet and clank on PS Pro there's no reason this game can't look as good as the Lego movies or very close, it's just laziness and greed (lack of investment from WB wanting to just churn out content quickly on the old engine) even on ps4 its annoying losing your save file deleting the game then reinstalling It AND LOSING ALL YOUR PROGRESS!!!!
So many boring hubs, & races locking variety or enjoyment, too many hubs that had New York…ghostbusters 1980 New York, ghostbusters 2016 New York……. FB New York…..Lego Batman movie Gotham hub just looks like New York.
The vehicles are very boring, not very interesting too small. Why is chima here??? Random moments that just feel weird the battle arena was fun but after a while I got bored.
Also, I kinda wish there were in game unlockable characters: Like if you bought the Sonic dlc, beating quests would unlock the ability to buy Amy, Tails, Shadow etc. or The Simpsons allowing you to buy Marge, Lisa, maggie or each of the ghostbusters, etc. with studs.
Overall it was an interesting level but could’ve been cooler if we got a lego Batman movie game & just surprised at it not being its own game instead of within dimensions. I know sadly this likely wont happen tho.. it disappoints me that the game is mostly looking at build instructions, back & forth again and again….. I am very upset dimensions wont ever be remastered added with better patches because what I had played felt muddied & not crafted well. I don’t mean to be so negative but it was weird having these problems front & center.

I was sort of talking shit about Huntsville's food scene in the 90s in a post yesterday about the passing of Bandito Burrito's ownefounder. I initially remembered Madison/Huntsville at that time as being a place best summarized by the Wal-Mart supercenters/Food Worlds/Krogers of the world, casual sit-down chain restaurants (O'Charley's, Landry's, Red Lobster, TGI Friday's, Chili's, etc.), fast food, boxed dinners, canned/frozen/processed foods, and little fresh produce in our diets. However, upon further reflection, I think maybe I wasn't entirely accurate. We had some good-to-great, locally-owned, authentic restaurants mixed in, as well, and I'm sure some folks cooked healthily at home using lots of fresh ingredients (not my household, tho :/). These are some locally-owned restaurants my family frequented during my childhood. What am I forgetting?
Bandito Burrito
Thomas Pit BBQ
El Camino Real
Daryll's
Mr. C's
Port of Madison (special occasions ONLY)
Green Hills Grille
Edo
Jade Garden
Nolan's BBQ
Frankly Frank's
Tony's Italian Deli (original trailer park location)
Steak-Out
Tim's Cajun Kitchen
Indian place on Jordan Ln. whose name escapes me
Ol' Heidelburg (?)

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Hi everyone I will be attending Caltech in the fall and have many questions on getting in to quant finance. I know there are different roles in quant finance that may have different degree requirements, but I’m not sure which role I would pursue so please try and help in general.

1. Do I major in math or applied math?
   
2. Should I attend grad school? If so then would a masters in financial engineering or applied math be better?
   
3. If I choose applied math for undergrad I can pick one of the following concentrations: Probability & Statistics, Analysis and PDEs, or Mathematical Modeling. Which concentration would be best for a MFE candidate to have?
   
4. I can also pick a application area from the following: learning & vision, graphics, robotics, environmental science, business and finance, or mechanics. Im assuming business and finance would be a good path?
   
5. How much could I expect to make with an undergrad at caltech in applied math and a masters in financial engineering at a top school? Are $500,000+ jobs realistic?
   
6. How important is it to take computer science classes?
   
7. Any advice?
   

Thank you all!