[cat_like_reflexes]

Maria this is good opportunity for you to get into relationship with him because you both seems to be of same behavior and attitude, before getting started you have to learn his likes and dislikes which will help you in getting closer to him, since you both feel shy your relationship will last long.

make small talk, let me get the hint you like him as hiding that is counter productive. See if you guys can work on something together. Ask for help studying, sometimes it pays to be a little helpless lol

[maria17]

you have to approach him..you should be a good friend of him..because relationship is start with the friendship. so my suggestion is that you should be a good friend of him.

[shoshannah]

My boyfriend and I are both naturally very shy. We were sort of thrown together when we had a tough class together and several people formed a study group in order to survive. So we were together first in a group, which made things much more natural and not forced. We discovered we liked each other and had common interests besides the class. Before long we sort of spun off of the group, and things developed from there. We're still both shy but we still have a very intimate and loving relationship, so it is possible.

based on my experience, I think finding common interests and starting by meeting in a group are the ways to make it non-threatening and non-demanding.