Really not sure as to whether this semi-shy guy likes me and what I should do?

[Susaluda]

We're both engineering majors in college (I'm a girl btw) and met about 3 months ago in class. We're both quite reserved and quiet but I'm proud of myself for being the one to talk to him at first. We have 3 classes together this quarter and always sit together. He always sits with me in our classes even though he has other friends in the class (not sure how well he knows these friends though) and we text about the homework assignments and class stuff pretty much every day. We also have study sessions together before exams and only the first was initiated by me, the other 3 have been suggested by him. Usually it's him that helps me, so it's not like he's just using me for help. I also feel like he looks at me with the "soft eyes" that tend to mean a guy likes you, but maybe his eyes are always like that? I can't tell. He also holds doors open for me and he's really nice to me.

 

Anyways, from all that I would guess that he does like me but he's never asked me to hang out apart from our study sessions. I did ask him if he wanted to come to dinner with my friends and I one night. He had plans with his roommates that night but said that a "dorm dinner sounded nice" so I asked him for a different day. He said he wasn't sure if he had plans with his roommates that day but he'd "make sure to let me know" (this was all through texting) and then he never did, so that made me think he didn't like me. He didn't seem like he was trying to make excuses though as far as my friends and I could tell.

 

However all those other signs I mentioned before are still there. Could it maybe be that he's just not sure if he likes me and trying to figure it out? Should I try asking him to hang out or come to dinner again?

[somedude81]

Seems like he's into you, but just shy as you said.

 

Invite him out to lunch or coffee, just the two of you.

 

For the record, if a girl invited me to hang out with her friends, I would decline even if I liked her.

[Susaluda]

Hmm that's good advice! The reason it was dinner with me and my friends was because they really wanted to meet him and were pushing me to invite him to dinner with us. I see your point though so I should make it something with just us two.