Much to the chagrin of all the Harvard cynics who adamantly denounce the dating scene, kvetch about the lack of available hotties, and repetitively soothe their angst-ridden parents with the all-too-common "no one dates and falls in love at college anymore," there are quite a few Harvard couples who fit the archetypal fairytale. These lucky students have sifted through the mass of pseudo-intellectuals, physicists, Porcellian men, and Pitches to finally stumble upon that one special person to whom they can croon "It had to Be You." These students have evaded the Harvard meat market and have not had to search for a Layla, a showgirl named Lola, a red-lit Roxanne, a Jesse's Girl, a Run-Around Sue or an 867-5309 Jenny. Here are their lives. Brace yourself.

JEANNE & BRIAN

Color-coding

"We met in passing freshman fall after noticing in the Science Center that we were basically wearing the same outfit," Jeanne said. She joked that "maybe we should plan to both wear green the following day." The next day, they bumped into each other again. In his green attire, Brian eagerly hinted to Jeanne at their emerging inside joke. Jeanne thought it was totally weird for this guy to be color-coordinating his outfit around her. Jeanne said, "Brian, I didn't want you to think I was so literal." But Brian explained, "Well, I didn't want you to think I was a joke."

"In typical guy fashion Brian didn't call me after [our first] date," Jeanne recalls, "but the next time I saw him I just said, 'So when are you going to take me out,' because I liked him and I was a huge flirt freshman year." While Brian doesn't remember Jeanne's racy behavior because, according to Jeanne, "it was an affront to his masculinity," he still called her to take her out to "Evita" for their second date (and his second time seeing the movie). After watching the movie, which neither liked, Jeanne asked Brian why he had taken her since had disliked it the first time. Brian replies, cuddling closer to Jeanne, "I just wanted an excuse to be with you."

Most Romantic Moment

"The great thing about the beginning of our relationship was that it was always full of surprises," Brian said. "Probably one of the most romantic things that has happened is Valentine's Day our freshman year. I spent the whole day in the basement of Mower baking Jeanne this cake in the shape of a heart. I had planned to let Jeanne find it in my fridge after the Kroks concert, but she told me early that evening that she didn't feel like eating. I kept suggesting though, that we go back to my room. I thought for sure that she had found out about the cake."

Jeanne remembers that after the a cappella concert, "I really wanted to go to the Acropolis, this Greek restaurant my parents had gone to on their first date at Harvard. I was shocked that Brain actually agreed because the whole idea of going to that restaurant was pretty serious. So we walked down Mass. Ave. for two hours trying to find the restaurant, then realized that it had closed a long time ago. So we went to a convenience store and bought cheese and fruit to have a picnic in Brian's room."

When they got back to Brian's room, Brian found a chocolate heart taped to his door with an attached note saying, "Que les jeux commence!" It was the first clue to a scavenger hunt that took Brian all over his room. "Each note I found contained a clue, a chocolate heart, and one thing written on it that Jeanne loves about me," Brian fondly remembers. The notes expressed everything that Jeanne loved about Brian: his kiss, his enthusiasm, his taste in women and his purple sweater.

"The final clue led to my window where I found a stuffed animal hanging off the ledge that said 'Someone at Harvard loves you.'" Jeanne had gotten her roommates to decorate the whole room and plant the scavenger hunt clues while they were at the a cappella concert.

What qualities attract you to each other?

Grasping Jeanne closer within his arms, Brian gushes that, "The more I learn about Jeanne, the more I think she is beautiful in every single way. Jeanne is everything I admire. She is a role model as well as a best friend. I love her energy, her passion and her compassion." Kissing Brian passionately, Jeanne exclaims that Brian is "so sincere, so giving and so honest-he is a Boy Scout. I always wanted someone who would really appreciate me for me--a person who would embrace everything about me--all my neuroses. This is what Brain has done. I have a connection with him that no one can ever replicate. Knowing Brian, I feel that it's almost as if we've grown up together."

JENNY & OLIVER

How did you guys get together?

"We met through a mutual friend freshman week and decided to skip the Health and Safety lecture to go out for pizza," Jenny recalls. Meeting around the time of the High Holidays, Jenny and Oliver, both being Jewish, spent a lot of time going to services and eating together at Hillel. Jenny states that "there were definite signals of us liking each other, like we called each other every other day, but I was nervous to consider Oliver a boyfriend because I wanted time at the beginning of freshman year to just figure things out. So, I told everyone who asked that we were just kinda seeing each other." After many casual nights hanging out, Jenny and Oliver's first official date was at the happily erstwhile California Pizza Kitchen. They both remember having bad service and receiving free desert.