On Valentine's Day at Harvard, love isn't in the air, but hidden in envelopes campus-wide.

Pending the results of an Undergraduate Council committee meeting, the 809 students who filed Valentine's Datamatch forms will learn their romantic fates today or tomosrrow.

For only one dollar, students who completed the 35 questions of the Datamatch survey, sponsored by the Council and the Harvard Computer Society (HCS), will receive a list of their 10 best matches from Council members tabling in dining halls around campus.

These same Council members are responsible for questions such as: "It's Friday night. What do you do? a) study b) go clubbing c) have lots of sex d) go the Grille e) wish you were having lots of sex." Other queries on the Datamatch form ranged from appropriate date behavior to favorite exotic locations for sexual fantasies.

Council representative Jinesh N. Shah '98 brought the Datamatch to campus last year after members expressed interest in carrying to Harvard the match-up services usually found at high schools.

This year's tally of 809 participants is up nearly 100 from last year but still falls a little short of Shah's hopes. "I would have liked to have more," he said.

While neither Shah nor Justin T. Lin '98, project coordinator of the Datamatch, could hazard a guess as to what kind of person might choose to participate, Lin noted that first-years comprised about one-half of the Datamatch pool.

According to Shah, this is a drop from last year, when first-years made up almost 60 percent of the group.

Gender ratios were about even for this year's Datamatch.

"It was pretty balanced," said Lin. "We didn't see any big discrepancies."

About three-quarters of participants filed their Datamatch forms through the HCS web site, according to Lin.

Lin said it seemed most students entered the Datamatch with a light rather than a longing heart.

"I don't think people participated with really that much a sense of seriousness about it," said Lin. "I would think most people participated out of a sense of fun or curiosity."

Students also downplayed the seriousness of the Datamatch, saying they viewed the questions on which their romantic futures hinge as more humorous than insightful.

"They were kind of random," said Michael W. Chen '96.