Welcome to the freshman class of 2014 and to the transfers and returning students.

Alec Anderson, a northern California native who came to the College of William and Mary as a sophomore transfer student, has been a fixture of main stage theater productions since his arrival on campus

Saturday morning, 8 a.m. The birds sing as the morning sun shines down on those dedicated runners jogging up and down Duke of Gloucester Street and Merchants Square is lined with tents and vendors selling everything from apples and berries to honey and bison.

Ah, summertime. Three months of school-free, sunny bliss, full of ungodly amounts of time spent poolside, at the beach and sleeping in.

When thinking of painters like Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann, most people imagine a lot of splashed paint and seemingly random color patterns.

For returning students, fenced-off bulldozers and men in hard hats may seem like permanent additions to the Sadler Center.

The only thing muffling the sound of his nervous heartbeat was the crinkling of the microphone sitting in front of him. If he just kept his eyes on the paper, Chris Wilson ’11 hoped he might forget that he was sitting in front of a congressional commission, about to testify to Congress.

This upcoming school year, the name Chrissy Scott is sure to grace the pages of campus publications and the conversations of involved students on a regular basis due to her position as Student Assembly president.

Aside from my wonderful duty as Confusion Corner columnist, I also serve as and Orientation Aide and have some ideas to how to make Orientation even better. Thus, I present you the Jason Rogers way:

The Flat Hat has compiled a list of some of the most important terms for every freshman to know.