See if you can find videos of move-in day on YouTube or something to observe tricks to make it as easy as possible.
The VCU main-campus immediate area is a city/urban environment, so traffic & parking are kind of crazy, and there is no WalMart in the immediate area, so making trips for things forgotten should be well thought-out before you hop in the car.
(Not a student, but my wife is grad, and we've lived in the area 30-odd years now....)
Renting/buying a furniture skateboard to move stacks of boxes in fewer trips might be worth the expense, and might help make new friends as you loan it to neighbors & roommates...
http://www.amazon.com/Movers-Dolly-1000-weight-capacity/dp/B004PANQ2K/
23,000 total underclassmen students, means roughly ~5,000 freshmen moving in that week.
Perhaps keep the filing cabinet on a funiture dolly? They come in many sizes. You could even screw/bolt the cabinet to the dolly.
http://www.amazon.com/Movers-Dolly-1000-weight-capacity/dp/B004PANQ2K