Colleges with best/worst names

<p>It would be great if Brown's school color were something like blue or purple... to keep people laughing....</p>

<p>Brown is the color of poop....Not to mention...Brown Bears? Come on!</p>

<p>I wouldn't be able to stand going to IUPUI. Ugh. Indiana U - Purdue U....... and whatever the second I stands for. Hate it. Hate it! Also sucks: Stanford, Cornell, Rice, anything with an acronym. Oh and "Mizzou." Ughhh. My first choice is U of Missouri (journalism major), but I dread having to wear anything with the word "Mizzou" or "Mizzou-rah" on it. </p>

<p>Best: I've always liked Dartmouth. But not when people pronounce it Dart-MOUTH.</p>

<p>I think both Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna sound very weird. Also, I do not think Colgate is bad - but then, it's one of my first choices.</p>

<p>It's Indiana U-Purdue U at Indianapolis...pronounced "eweey-pooey" (no kidding).</p>

<p>Ones that immediately produce mental images of unrelated non-collegiate things are disturbing: Rice (the food rice), Brown (the color brown), Colgate (toothpaste), Carnegie Mellon (Pamela Anderson), George Washington (cherry tree), Miami U.-Ohio (palm trees).</p>

<p>I'm also a little freaked out by names that have only one consonant: U of Iowa, Ohio U., Iona</p>

<p>Also a little freaked out by names that start and end in vowels: all of the ones above, plus Acadia, Appalacia, Alma, Oklahoma, and sometimes Yale.</p>

<p>"sometimes Yale." <<Nice.</p>

<p>Colgate the toothpaste is named after the college i'm 99% sure.</p>

<p>And I don't think Rice is a bad name at all. SUNY anything is a bad name (it just makes them all seem a little bit too...public?? I dunno.)</p>

<p>For the most part, it just goes to show how a name is an individual, personal thing. To me, Bowdoin and Middlebury sound just as good as Amherst and Brown.</p>

<p>How could CMU make you think of Pamela Anderson before Andrew Mellon? That's a strange association to me.</p>

<p>Colgate (the school) and Colgate (the toothpaste) are both named after William Colgate (the soapmaker) who was a major benefactor to a school that had been previously called Madison University before 1890. Whether Colgate (the company) was incorporated and had a brand of toothpaste before 1890, I don't know.</p>

<p>Think about the answer to that question. I'm sure you'll get it eventually.</p>

<p>I always likes colleges named after towns, like Amhearst, Wellesley, etc.</p>

<p>I'll only mention one for worst, but not mecause its bad, just because the stories about the confusions surrounding it are kind of funny. Students at MIT always manage to find the funniest interpretations of the initials MIT.</p>

<p>One person I know thought it was just MIT, and the letters meant nothing, up until he visited the campus after being admitted and saw the actual name plastered everywhere. Others had family member congradulating them on getting into the Michigan Institute of Technology, or other random states. Several thought it was the Mathematical Institute of Technology well past when they considered it their first choice. The list goes on about this name, its very funny.</p>

<p>My very good friend went to Transylvania. For the first ten years that I knew him, I thought it was a joke. </p>

<p>Over 100 members of congress graduated from there.</p>

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<p>I've heard the same for UCLA. In fact I've heard some Europeans pronounce it as one word: "ookla," rather than as individual letters.</p>

<p>"Think about the answer to that question. I'm sure you'll get it eventually."</p>

<p>Gotta love Clendenenator's self-control in choosing to going understated on Gellino.</p>

<p>I have always thought that Yale was a pretty cool name. I am really not a fan of "prestigious" schools that much, because I usually just think it fosters egomaniacs, but saying "I go to Yale" always seemed kinda cool to me. I really have no idea why.</p>

<p>Same exact thing goes for Dartmouth. I strongly disliked the school when I visited it, but I love the name.</p>

<p>Other schools with names I like are Colby, Gonzaga, and Lewis and Clark. Schools with names I dislike are Rice, Stanford, and Auburn.</p>

<p>I always thought it was pretty clever of some Catholic colleges to be named after a city, but the city has a religious name...sort of killing 2 birds with one stone: Providence College, U of San Francisco, Santa Clara U., St. Louis U.</p>

<p>Here's a true story I posted on the Yale board many months ago:</p>

<p>A few decades ago, my father managed a small Chrysler plant near Chicago. About half the workers there were Hispanic. My father needed a new foreman, and wanted to promote someone from within his organization. He'd heard this one worker was a Yale man, and decided to interview him for the position.</p>

<p>My father calls him into his office. My father says, "I hear you went to Yale."</p>

<p>The worker gets very nervous and says, "Yeah, but it was no big deal. Back in Cuba I got caught stealing a bicycle, and the judge sent me to yale for 6 months."</p>

<p>I've been buying my 2 daughters various college T-shirts in an effort to get them focused on what lights there might be at the end of the high school tunnel. The 2 kids spend each summer with relatives in Spain. My [Spanish] wife won't let them take the Virginia or Penn T-shirts to Spain because to the untrained Spanish eye, they look like the Spanish words for female and male genitalia, respectively.</p>

<p>Most Boring Name</p>

<p>University of "fill in home state here"</p>

<p>Thats why Penn goes by Penn and Princeton is no longer called the "college of New Jersey"</p>

<p>University of "fill in home state here" @ random city</p>

<p>At least in Virginia the other public schools get there own name-James Madison, Virginia Commonwealth, etc.. Much better than UVA-Richmond</p>

<p>TourGuide, your wife is a bit too wary. Virginia is a perfectly normal and common female name in Spanish, and Penn looks like a foreign word. No one would ever have a weird thought about those shirts.</p>

<p>I, obviously, get the joke. It just seemed like more than a bit of a stretch to me, especially since it is specifically named after someone and not even spelled the same way.</p>

<p>"Thats why Penn goes by Penn and Princeton is no longer called the "college of New Jersey"</p>

<p>-Maybe not, but The College of New Jersey is still called the College of New Jersey...</p>