My idea...

Making Friends...

After coming up with my inital idea, i decided to investigate it a little further in order to see what avenues i could come up with. I had already thought about having a portable companion, something that could fold out and have your information within it. In order for your information to be there, i thought about creating a possible online profile. Either using what is already readily accessible i.e facebook. Or creating my own splash pages to illustrate it. And on this profile you would be able to fill in your personal characteristics. For example the sort of music that you're into, or what social scene you prefer (house parties or oceana nights). Each would have a different category and you would fill in which ones most suited you. That way later the personal companions could be customised to fit you, and that would be where the colour coding would come into play, you would be able to meet other people with similar interests to you because their buddy would show it too. That way you already having something to talk about.

The interests themselves need to be researched more thoroughly but its a start in helping put together a profile for the next lot of students to fill in. They don't even have to do it online they could do it on the first day, after picking a companion that most suits them by the look. This also leaves room for me to create sets, and each set corresponds to a different sort of person.