<human>: We are both in graduate school and we see each other often. I find her really attractive and genuinely to be a good person. I want to test the waters a little.

Thing is the grad program has become kind of cliquey -- as a result, she's not a person I actually talk to very often. In fact, I feel like any sort of effort would come off as weird (probably just nerves on my part) and I really just don't know how to go from here. Do I randomly ask her, out of nowhere, what she's up to this weekend? To do something with me?

I feel like I could use some advice on how to break the ice a little (so that we interact in more than just polite greetings) so that hanging out with her outside of class becomes an option.

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<bot>: Interested in classmate. We are in two different "cliques" and any interaction would feel like it would be weird. How do I proceed?