<p>Anyone have any advice/experience for pulling yourself away from sunny California to the East Coast? It was only recently that I realized it would be a huge change (I'm expecting "That's okay, she's from California" to explain any initial adjustment weirdness.)</p>
<p>One thing that I'm hung up over is the weather. My wardrobe is mostly light shirts and flip flops with a seasonal adjustment of switching from short pants to long pants. 60F is cold and I've never lived somewhere with snow (in fact, I'm very bad at not falling over in snow). Since MA is not Siberia, I'm thinking it's not that big of a deal. At least not reason enough to not go at all.</p>
<p>Another thing I was wondering about is the travel. Are there anyways to work the system to make flying easier/cheaper?</p>
<p>Well, the further in advance you by plane tickets, the cheaper they are.</p>
<p>If you can get flights that either leave or arrive in Boston at reasonable hours, and have luggages that you can pull or take upstairs with only minor difficulty, you can take public transportation to the airport, which saves 25-50 dollars on a cab, another student or the airporter.</p>
<p>You can wear shorts for about the first six weeks of school and then after that it's pretty much pants and shoes. Throw in a winter coat somewhere and add the hat and gloves later. I'm a fan of thermal underwear myself.</p>
<p>It's going to be 60F next week. I'm really excited.</p>
<p>MA is not Siberia not is it Upstate New York or Minnesota. You still have a real winter.</p>
<p>Budget for winter clothes and buy stuff when you get here. The weather will be hot and sticky for a good long time, but any store that sells clothes will sell something appropriate if there is time.</p>
<p>With any luck, Sister's Keepers will happen again and you can get clothes for cheap.</p>
<p>im from southern california and am now at wellesley so i totally understand.</p>
<p>layering is import...bring all your tank tops and short sleeve shirts and just pile them on in the beginning of the year when its "cold" (ie. under 70 lol)
after a few weeks youll start getting used to the weather and then youll start wearing 2 shirts instead of 3...</p>
<p>before it starts snowing, please please please buy a good warm coat.
and buy it when you get to massachusetts because the coats here are definitely warmer than the ones in california. some coats have an inner jacket and an outer jacket which ive found to work really well because the outer one becomes a rain coat which is nice. rubber boots for rain are also nice. and snow boots too!!</p>
<p>a lot of people have north face fleeces for colder weather when its now snowing. umm...by the end of year, 60 will feel really warm. last weekend it went to 80 and i had no idea what to do with myself..it was too warm!</p>