<human>: Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?

My roommate's girlfriend brought another girl back to our apartment a couple of weeks ago. She was very cute and seemed pretty nice, but she was clearly meant for, and had more in common with, my other roommate. Also at the time, I was still in the "education and hobbies leave no room for girls" mode. Since then I have wanted to get on the dating scene, but have absolutely no idea how to start. My last relationship was in high school. I am finishing up my third year in Mechanical Engineering and am doing quite well, but unfortunately that doesn't leave much time for clubs. Even when it does, there aren't many single girls in things like ASME. I think that I am reasonably attractive. On a separate throwaway I went to rateme and the mean, median, and mode were all seven. I'm pretty intelligent (I only feel comfortable saying that because I'm not looking you in the eyes; normally I exercise almost inimical humility in public), and unless they laugh to make me feel better (possible given how great they are), my friends think that I'm pretty funny. I know that I'm eventually supposed to ask some kind of question, but I don't even know what that looks like. What I really need is for some benevolent redditor to tell me from the ground up, how do I find a nice girl, court her, and find a meaningful relationship with her. I understand Rome wasn't built in a day, and as of now, it doesn't seem like I have  much to offer a girl, but I'm hoping with your help I can improve myself and become more of a person that a girl would want to share their time with. Thank you very much for reading, and I hope you'll share your advice!
<bot>: Whereas I didn't before; I see value in sharing your time and experiences with a partner. I need "starting from scratch" advice help to make me a dateable person.