A steady stream of pillows and stuffed animals, microwaves and mirrors and excited students and anxious parents flowed into Wilfrid Laurier University’s Bricker Residence on Saturday.

It was part of a mass migration taking place throughout Waterloo Region and across the province, as post-secondary students return for the fall semester.

On Bricker Avenue in Waterloo, the staff and students on hand to greet the new arrivals had everything down to a science: line up the incoming vehicles, hand out parking passes, direct students to their keys and baggage carts and repeat.

First-year students got a special welcome — a song and cheers from the Laurier Icebreakers, a group of student volunteers. “Our role is to help the parents relax, get them set up and hype up the first-years,” said second-

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