I'm female (yes, I know; I don't exist) and I started to hang out with a classmate in college. One day he finally got up the nerve (on ICQ!) to confess that he really liked me more than as a friend, and asked if I would go out with him. Actually, I'd hoped he'd ask at some point, since I wouldn't have the nerve myself. It's been a few years, and we're still together (married and happy and everything). And he had been convinced, before that, that he was too weird and geeky to ever find a girlfriend. So don't give up!