What your hood colour says about you…
A brief guide by Mississippi Smith
You’ll notice that when people graduate there is often a rainbow of hood colours glimmering in the early April sunshine. But, contrary to popular belief, there are more to these colours than just “blue” or “green”. No, they have much fancier names. I’ll guide you briefly through some of the wonderful colour spectrum that Massey has on offer for you.
Bachelor of Defence Studies: Pansy (Deep Purple).
I’ve often wondered whose idea was it to dress those with a degree that features one hundred level papers such as Man UP!; Guns and You; Carking it in Khaki and Kicking Ass and Taking Names in a colour specifically called Pansy. This appeals greatly to my sense of humour.
Bachelor of Social Work: Horse Chestnut.
…A polite way of saying Poo Brown.
Vet Science: Imperial Purple.
“We shall slowly take over the world by charging you and your pet vet fees that are through the roof! One day we shall have an Imperial (purple) army of cows and horses which will take down you humans! Oh, inferior species! How you shall plead with us when we trample your gardens and cut off your milk supplies, but will we heed your requests? NEVER! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA” – Crazed Vet student.
Vet scientist let the power get to their heads. Putting imperial in front of the word purple just further encourages them to form massive egos. Not being remotely facetious here, they should really have something more like Grass Green or Haystack Yellow…
Bachelor of Arts: Rose Pink.
Kind of fitting, really. You know that age old expression “seeing the world through rose tinted glasses”? Well, you kind of have to when you graduate with an Arts degree. Someone’s gotta hire you…right?
Bachelor of Design: White.
So, you’re telling me that after all the other wanky lining colours including Dioptase (Applied Economics); Parma Violet (Information Science); Claret (Dairy Science and Technology) and Medici Crimson(counselling), the Design Students only get minimalist white? Most design students will be able to tell you that white isn’t technically a colour at all! Couldn’t Massey have branched out to more superior sounding shades such as Seashell White; Half Spanish White; Ivory or, my favourite, Cosmic Latte White? Unless all design students are inherently minimalist in nature, which I doubt, after spending four years studying colours, I’d be kind of insulted that I didn’t get a ridiculous name to go with my lining!