Most Harvard undergraduates tend to load their plates with demanding classes, activities and jobs, but second semester senior Annapurna K. Duleep's lastest extracurricular outdoes them all: marriage. Whether Duleep and husband Kevin Hill will find happiness with one foot in the Yard may be tied to the success of recently married couples.

If so, the two appear headed for marital bliss.

Needing a break from school, Duleep, a pre-med psychology concentrator, took a semester off in the spring of her sophomore year and returned home to Norwalk, Conn. to work in a doctor's office and with a physician's assistant at local Norwalk Hospital. It was there that she found herself constantly bumping into a "gorgeous" radiologic technologist, Kevin Hill, 35.

Hill soon took a second job at the doctor's office where Duleep was working, As the only two single people in the office, both became the focus of coworkers' matchmaking skills.

"Everybody was trying to set us up," she said.

But they resisted attempts by well-meaning coworkers to force affection, considering their age difference and Duleep's eventual return to Harvard major barriers to any long-term possibilities.

The two continued to hold out until August 14, when Hill bought her lunch, during which they made a date for the very next evening.

Neither expected much from that first date.

"We went into this with the lowest of expectations," Duleep recalled.

She wasn't even sure if the interest would outlast the meal.

"I chose a restaurant within walking distance of my house so I wouldn't be dependent on him for a ride home if I didn't like him," she said.

Two weeks later, the pair set off for a weekend in Exeter, NH, visiting Anna's former high school and finishing the day with dinner at the Exeter Inn.

When the bill came, Duleep said she refused to let Hill pay. Instead, as he attempted to give her the money she said, "Why don't you take that money and start saving for the rock you're going to buy me?"

The next week, Duleep arrived to meet Hill at his apartment and found champagne waiting for her. Hill, who had fallen asleep waiting, roused himself enough to propose.

"You know that $60?" he said, "I opened an account that day."