Other just give up and study for midterms or wash their socks. "Icky Boys Abound," reads the Holworthy laundry room door. Another put it more directly, "I hope you didn't come to Harvard to find love."

And in Widener's basement a table chronicles the evolution of one Harvard would-be love story. "Me-she0, then meshe, then me(it)she(it), then MITSHIT," then "But this won't work me/she (nominative vs. accusative) ISHE."

Often, the graffiti artists will stop complaining about their lack of companionship long enough to speculate on whom they would most enjoy as a companion. In the Quincy House Qube, an ongoing battle is raging to pick the prettiest girl in Quincy.

"There are only five attractive girls in this House," one writer suggested. "Who?" asked a second. A third modest entrant added "Me, for one." However, she declined to sign her name.

Although willing volunteers try their best to keep the Qube list updated with current house residents, some alumnae are immortalized in ink. But the critics will have their say, "No way!," "Is not," and "Who wrote this?"

Of course, men are not the only ones who enjoy rating members of the opposite gender through the safe anonymity of graffiti. In Dunster House, the women have turned the tables on the men. A door in the women's restroom bears a list of nearly 50 names of former and current Dunster males, under the heading "Best Looking Dunster Men (random order). Vote early! Vote often! Use any criteria you like."

Nearby, another writer added, "Let's get less shallow. How about the Nicest Man in Dunster?" Graffiteers obliged with a list of 10 names.

A visitor from Adams house was not impressed. with the Dunster women or men and wrote, "A note from Adams House--this is a meat market which is disgusting." But Lowell responded favorably to the meat market. "Note from Lowell--wish we had one."