Brock residence rush a well-oiled machine

And for Alexander Quattrociocchi, they include tools, and assorted DVDs and games.These are some of the things Alexander Quattrociocchi lugged with him from Mississauga as he moved into Brock University's Lowenberger building on Sunday."If I'm living here for eight months, I wanted it to feel like home," said the 20-year-old."I have a lot more stuff than some people here, I think," the first year math and computer science student observed. "It's my first year — so I didn't know what to expect."

At that, his dad Dan chimed in with a laugh: "He's got too-oo much stuff, I told him."Quattrociocchi joined thousands of student arrivals to Brock and Niagara College who streamed into residences and off-campus housing this long weekend.Sunday was the day the two post-secondary institutions booked to make the move into their residences as seamless as possible.Volunteers and staff directed traffic and formed human conveyor belts to help relocating students, who were also joined by small armies of recruited family and friends.

Brock alone is welcoming more than 18,000 new and returning students to campus for the school year."We're doing our best to get everyone welcomed to Brock first, then moved into their rooms and excited about being here," said Josh Nunn, one of the Brock student coordinators.Kevin Fochuk, general manager for the on-campus residences at Niagara College described their Sunday move as "very smooth.""We find the secret to the controlled chaos is really controlling the traffic flow and the flow of students at the intake," Fochuk said, of the 350 or so students moving into Niagara College's two residences.