On June 1st, 2022 I was appointed Innovation Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH) in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and a few days later also as an Expert-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Labs (Hi).
My wife, my daughter and I had 92 days to get ready and go. Here’s a quick and simplified list, in no particular order, of what we had to do, obviously in parallel:
Logistics:
- Plane tickets
- Pack the house
- Cancel utilities
- Find a new home for our kittens (thank you, sis!)
- Get an apartment in Cambridge (deal with realtors, landlord, inspections, fees, deposits, etc)
- Open a bank account in Cambridge
Get a Visa:
Shopping (small sample):
- Mattresses
- Beds
- Desks
- Couch
- Sheets
- Towels
- Kitchen utensils
- Groceries
- Plates, silverware
- Night/coffee tables, etc
Buy a car:
- Choose one
- “Assignment of Title” on the back of the vehicle’s “Certificate of Title”
- Insurance
- Transfer title and Registration at DMV (title and registration Application for Registration and Title Form TTLREG100, with stamp to certify insurance)
- Title and registration fees
- License plates or stickers
- Safety and emissions inspection at a Massachusetts Inspection Station within 7 days of completing registration
- Correct RMV registered address
- Parking permit
Register my daughter in her new school:
- Birth Certificate
- Immunization Record
- Health History Form
- Proof of Cambridge Address (signed lease)
- Proof of Occupancy (dated within 30 days)
- Previous school transcript
- Language placement test
And so much more I don’t even want to remember it!
But here we are, settled, and living an experience of a lifetime, again.