Director of Admissions Recruitment @bentleyu, dog/boy mom, powerlifter. @IthacaCollege, @BostonCollege, @umasslowell alum. @negaporg past prez.
Boston, MA
Joined September 2010
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Alyssa Orlando, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
I love writing about New England and family and friendships and critters and trees and weather and there ain’t a damn thing gonna change
15th first day of college today, the last three at @ClarkUniversity. Still feels like 2010 in a lot of ways. Welcome, new students, and welcome back, returners! ❤️ (and thanks to @CUBSchool for the fun decorations today!)
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I scrolled allllll the way back to 2018-me to quote-tweet my “first day of school” tweet…former me must not have ever thought this day would come.
Yesterday I passed my dissertation defense and became Dr. Alyssa Orlando! 🥳 Six years in the making. What a whirlwind.
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Alyssa Orlando, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by chefs Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides in 1938 in Whitman, Massachusetts.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts designated the chocolate chip cookie as the Official State Cookie in 1997.
Alyssa Orlando, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Gio loves his shirt from @KyleDJames and @CryptoCatDad10. Two of the best gu(a)ys a baby could ask for!
Alyssa Orlando, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
College Town Showdown
Round 2
Ithaca, NY (@IthacaBomberFB @BigRed_Football) vs Lawrence, KS (@KU_Football)
Which is the better college town?
Voting is open on Instagram & Twitter
4 weeks of mom-ing: being a mom is just always being awake when everyone else in your house is sleeping...
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Alyssa Orlando, Ph.D. (she/her) retweeted
Anyone have tips on how to handle being gaslit by your dog?
Somehow in the last 11 days since becoming parents, @RPOrlando91 and I have moved from being “watch Tiktoks before bed together” people to “send each other Reels at 3am and watch them alone” people. #parenthood
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Happiest first days of life. I am so lucky to be a mom to this munchkin Giovanni Michael.
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I know the real answer to the question "what's more stressful: A) childbirth or B) preparing for parental leave?" but when you are in the thick of Answer B, it really doesn't seem like it...
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Narrator: it was not, in fact, the year she finished 😅
Hoping newly-minted mom powers come January carry me across the finish line in 2023! + a reminder: your degree is not worth your mental health. It’s okay to make choices + not allow everything be priority #1 all the time.
It has been a long road earning this degree while working full-time through a pandemic, but 2022 will be the year I finish my PhD. #ABD #phdchat
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What a difference 5 years makes - now the end of the year looks more like:
💻 close out my fall semester as a director
🏡 finish decorating our nursery
📝complete a dissertation draft
🍼Buffalo and Boston baby showers
🎈 turn 30 (wtf?!)
🤰🏼hopefully make it to 39 weeks
Rest of 2017:
🏀 @KUHoops opening night
🏈 @icnealumni celebrates #Cortaca
🍖 Friendsgiving
💟 @ACUIRegionVIII Conference
🍗 Actual Thanksgiving
🎂 I turn 25
🐶 Rhetta turns 1
✈️ PIT & MCO
🌲 Holiday break
🎉 Ring in 2018
Game time! Let’s do it 🙌🏻
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