It won't take a lifetime of living and learning to get to know the intricacies of your personality.

A website founded by Harvard students that has been providing reading period procrastination fodder claims it might not even take four years of study and introspection in college.

Instead, thespark.com says, four minutes and the high speed Internet connection in your dorm room should do quite nicely.

The site's personality test has gotten 4,283,704 hits since it went online on Sept. 1, 2000.

Test takers fill in the 52 bubbles on its personality test, answering questions like "Do you make small talk with cute waiters?" and "Aren't babies incredibly special?"

The test then designates participants one of 16 distinct personality types.

"I took it twice, a month apart. I was bored and it was entertaining," says Christi D. Tran '04. She was pleased to be labeled a "guru" the first time she took the test but thought the second result--"the shy one who sat in the corner"--wasn't as accurate. Tran says the test is popular among her dorm-mates.

Eduardo A. Frigola '01 says he thought the test was "pretty accurate." It labeled Frigola a "mastermind" and said he matched 100 percent with most of his friends.