The Future in Colours

// March 17th, 2008 // Academic, Music Monday, QOTW

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The song this week is DHT’s Listen to Your Heart, dedicated to everyone one out there who’s facing love heartaches and is lost and confused.

Now, moving on to something more, cheerful (right…)! For high school seniors, March is known as Waiting Month. Twelve years of public education boils down to that single moment with a mouse click. Would it be tissues filled with tears of sorrow, or elegant glasses filled with champagne of joy? Only a handful of people in the world know my fate. So, dear readers, how good are you with colours? Whoever figures out the most school colours below gets an awesome link in my sidebar and a place in my RSS (because seriously, if you can figure it out, then YOU should be going to the universities I applied to). Here’s a hint: 2 Canadians on top, 8 US ones below. Their websites are your friend =D

They’re getting less and less creative with colours. Ready? Set? Go! And don’t mix up your blues.

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18 Responses to “The Future in Colours”

  1. Cat says:
    March 17, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    Randomly stumbled upon you and found the colour blog intriguing. Although I’m not very good. Is the blue and gold at the top the University of Lethbridge? That’s where I have the joy of attending so just curious.
    It would also be interesting to know how many schools share the same colours/mascots.

  2. Crystal says:
    March 17, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    U of Lethbridge is in Alberta right? Move one province to the West! I just went on their site and you’re right, the colours are very close. I’m sure a lot of universities share the same colours, it’s a shame really. They could’ve at least consulted ColourLovers!

  3. Meg says:
    March 17, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Dark blue (although it might not be that exact shade?) and gold is UMichigan; black and orange is Princeton; red and white is Stanford; blue and white is Yale (but I’m not too sure about the shades on that one either). A lot of schools probably have the same colors, though. The rest? I have no idea.

  4. Crystal says:
    March 17, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Woot! Meg is on a roll. You got two right and another one is really close. The colours are matched to the exact hex code provided by Wikipedia :cool:

  5. Cat says:
    March 17, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Northridge/Lucas rings a few bells. I haven’t been back out to London in ages! Most of my time I spent between Toronto and Windsor, but I frequently visit London still when I’m out there.
    I enjoy it so much more out west :)

  6. Kaylee says:
    March 17, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    I have no clue when it comes to colours and universities! I barely know Canadian university colours, let alone US ones.

  7. IB Student says:
    March 17, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    YES. Fun. :D

    I have no idea about the first two on the top…:x

    The purple and white one is Northwestern University (I think).

  8. Arielle says:
    March 17, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    Well, based on the literature I’ve received from them, I’d say light blue and white is Columbia and dark red and white is NYU. I don’t really pay much attention to this stuff though. And one of the blue/yellow combos must be UCLA. (I really should know which one; I’m there once a month.)

  9. Marie says:
    March 18, 2008 at 4:08 am

    I totally wouldn’t have a clue as I live in Australia…but from what everyone else has guessed (apologies for copying anyone) and thanks to google here’s a wild guess:
    university of alberta - green
    canadian university college - red brown/white
    stanford university - maroon/white
    princeton university - black/orange
    yale university - dark blue/white
    university of lethbridge - blue/yellow
    univeristy of michigan - yellow/light blue
    northwestern university - purple/white
    columbia university - light blue/white
    ucla - light blue/white
    new york university - dark blue/white

  10. Kate says:
    March 18, 2008 at 8:58 am

    Sadly, I am not even going to attempt to guess and embarrass myself! Lol. I think it’d be neat if every university had totally different colors because then it’d be so much easier to tell them all apart!!

  11. Crystal says:
    March 18, 2008 at 9:40 am

    @ Arielle - You got two right. But I’m surprised, based on your last post, no bells going off? Btw, congrats!

    @ Marie - Three right, hehe. Have you consulted Wikipedia? :biggrin:

  12. Yara says:
    March 18, 2008 at 11:52 am

    I seriously have no clue as to which colour represents which school :P. But I must say, I love the song of the week. Whenever I listen to that song it brings back old memories :).

  13. Tyler Gresham says:
    March 18, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Hey! Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it. :smile:

    I’m going to do some more research on those ads, I think the one you mentioned is at JohnCow, I’ll get a screenshot of it as well..

    Tyler Gresham

  14. Vita says:
    March 18, 2008 at 1:39 pm

    I have no idea :biggrin:
    I’m from Europe and only know a few states in America.
    But I know that Canada’s capital city is Otawa. Ha! Lols :wink:

  15. Regina says:
    March 18, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    The two Canadian ones are McGill and UBC?
    I don’t know any of the US ones :grin:

  16. Wednesday says:
    March 18, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Blue/yellow one in the first row, on the right is the University of British Columbia, I think. And one of the red/white ones is Harvard?

  17. Marie says:
    March 19, 2008 at 2:53 am

    @Crystal - LOL, just google but wiki may have helped me get a better score!

  18. Neets says:
    March 19, 2008 at 11:22 am

    I think the two below the ones you say are Canadian are K State, KS, and MU, MO. Although I might think that just because I live close to those schools… :biggrin:

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