“I laughed. I was very surprised. I thought it was very funny,” Garmendia said.

Though the news did not spark any sexual encounters, she said, it did lead to a lot of “nerdy fun.”

Although the website boasts 270 matches between students, the most-requested hookups said they had not seen any piece of this action.

Lane D. Levine ’06 said that upon discovering his name among the top five he immediately followed the directions posted on the website, entering the names of 10 people with whom he would actually want to hook up.

“I doubt that any of the matches resulted in a hook-up,” Levine said. “It’s too odd. I can’t imagine the situation that would result.”

ONLINE AUCTION

CrimsonXchange.com, the website that enables students to auction textbooks, tutoring services and House formal tickets, currently boasts about 500 users. About 250 items, Lessin said, had been sold thus far.

Lessin, who opened the site by posting dozens of his own belongings, said that most of the exchanges occurred early in the year—giving him and co-founder Tali B. Rapaport ’05 $2 for each book and $5 for each piece of furniture that was sold on the website. Lessin said that he stopped charging students several months ago after they evaded the fee by using e-mail to arrange private sales.

Molly M. Faulkner-Bond ’06 said that she thought the website was “grossly underutilized.”

“People simply are not aware that it exists,” she said, citing that she had entered a travel package in January that had not yet been bought.

But Robert Milosavljevic ’05 said that the website was a convenient way to sell books and furniture.“Though eBay has a much wider potential market, there is a lot to be said for someone hand-delivering stuff locally,” he said.

The websites recently created by Harvard students have inspired similar sites at other schools across the country, and each site has plans to expand in the fall.

Corker said that Hahvahdparties.com will continue in the fall under Morris’ supervision with the help of several recruits from a rush process, held this spring.

Lessin said that he had received requests from “several other schools” to create a version of CrimsonXchange.com catered to each distinct community, though he declined to name the specific schools.

“We have to figure out how to hold up this site and make modifications for each campus,” he said, adding that Harvard’s version would stay the same.