{"id":1,"date":"2022-09-01T00:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T00:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-11-10T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T00:59:00","slug":"appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/2022\/09\/01\/appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointed Innovation Fellow: t-92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/SD2cp58WfgOJk58fpjaPgCOtJLPwZa6DhW3HElSisQHMooUuKa08Uzh0REF73zqJyp2P8iX57cyev2YF8OJyFPzyQc4y_jsY2WPibZPIq4GIL13SxOHODKWN75rbP3sSKUNAVVu1VyI=w2400\" alt=\"IKEA\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On June 1st, 2022 I was appointed <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.seas.harvard.edu\/fellows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation Fellow<\/a> at the Technology &amp; Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.seas.harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TECH<\/a>) in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEAS<\/a>), and a few days later also as an <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/innovationlabs.harvard.edu\/expert-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expert-in-Residence<\/a> at the Harvard Innovation Labs (<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/innovationlabs.harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hi<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>My wife, my daughter and I had 92 days to get ready and go. Here&#8217;s a quick and simplified list, in no particular order, of what we had to do, obviously in parallel:<\/p>\n<p>Logistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plane tickets<\/li>\n<li>Pack the house<\/li>\n<li>Cancel utilities<\/li>\n<li>Find a new home for our kittens (thank you, sis!)<\/li>\n<li>Get an apartment in Cambridge (deal with realtors, landlord, inspections, fees, deposits, etc)<\/li>\n<li>Open a bank account in Cambridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get a Visa:<\/p>\n<div class=\"checklist-items-list js-checklist-items-list js-no-higher-edits ui-sortable\">\n<div class=\"checklist-item no-assignee no-due checklist-item-state-complete\">\n<div class=\"checklist-item-details non-empty js-checkitem editable\">\n<div class=\"checklist-item-row js-checkitem-row current\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">Fill out Harvard online form for HIO<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">DS2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">DS-160 barcode<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">I-901 and Pay SEVIS fee<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">US Embassy appointment + pay fee<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">Report Embassy appointment to HIO<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">Translations<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">Solvency certificate<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">Embassy Interview<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"checklist-item-text-and-controls hide-on-edit\"><span class=\"checklist-item-details-text markeddown js-checkitem-name\">Receive Visa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"checklist-item no-assignee no-due checklist-item-state-complete\">\n<div class=\"checklist-item-details non-empty js-checkitem editable\">\n<div class=\"checklist-item-row js-checkitem-row current\">\n<p>Shopping (small sample):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mattresses<\/li>\n<li>Beds<\/li>\n<li>Desks<\/li>\n<li>Couch<\/li>\n<li>Sheets<\/li>\n<li>Towels<\/li>\n<li>Kitchen utensils<\/li>\n<li>Groceries<\/li>\n<li>Plates, silverware<\/li>\n<li>Night\/coffee tables, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buy a car:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose one<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAssignment of Title\u201d on the back of the vehicle\u2019s \u201cCertificate of Title\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Insurance<\/li>\n<li>Transfer title and Registration at DMV (title and registration Application for Registration and Title Form TTLREG100, with stamp to certify insurance)<\/li>\n<li>Title and registration fees<\/li>\n<li>License plates or stickers<\/li>\n<li>Safety and emissions inspection at a Massachusetts Inspection Station within 7 days of completing registration<\/li>\n<li>Correct RMV registered address<\/li>\n<li>Parking permit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Register my daughter in her new school:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birth Certificate<\/li>\n<li>Immunization Record<\/li>\n<li>Health History Form<\/li>\n<li>Proof of Cambridge Address (signed lease)<\/li>\n<li>Proof of Occupancy (dated within 30 days)<\/li>\n<li>Previous school transcript<\/li>\n<li>Language placement test<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>And so much more I don&#8217;t even want to remember it!<\/div>\n<div>But here we are, settled, and living an experience of a lifetime, again.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1st, 2022 I was appointed Innovation Fellow at the Technology &amp; 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 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/2022\/09\/01\/appointed\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jorgecortell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}