move to europe in eleven easy steps

1. Take the GMAT entrance exam. Spend $300. Apply to a graduate program, pay the €100 fee.
2. Shock all of your friends, family, and professional contacts, to the point that it becomes embarrassing, by accepting your acceptance and announcing your move.
3. Wire the €10,000 deposit, if you have that kind of spare cash.
4. Renew your passport, for $110, and then apply for Global Entry, for another $100. Passport photos from a fluorescent-lit CVS, priceless.
5. Open a joint bank account for easy transfers while abroad.
6. Take online remedial pre-courses, €1,500.
7. Purchase a new, light, golden Apple MacBook (2.03 lbs, $2,000).
8. Learn Italian with Pimsleur’s Short Course tapes (free from the Hillsborough County Public Library). Practice with your dad.
9. Leave your job, transfer your car lease ($450).
10. Fly Emirates JFK→MXP on the A380 jumbo jet, one-way ($540).
11. Arrive exactly one month ahead of classes, stay in an Airbnb for one week before finding a suitable long-term arrangement ($TBD).

little Alexis and Big Alexis, ready for the world

requisite mandals, by Gucci

And, a new travel bag, also by Gucci, in signature red and green web stripe

Emirates Airbus A380 by Martin Krizka Aviation Shots on Flickr

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