<human>: This girl and I happened to have breakfast at the same time/place every day and we've really hit it off. Her roommate says she won't stop talking about me and I'm into her. No problem, right?

The trouble is that she's really different from other girls I've dated. We're both studying sciences and talk about cosmology, data systems, electronics, stuff like that. Which is awesome, but at the same time it's making it really difficult to romanticize things. Say what you will about the beauty of nature, its discovery is a heartless, analytical slog.

We're also both terrifically afflicted with the typical lack of social awareness; if I'm catching hints from her, it's probably obvious from across the room to everyone else. Somehow an abundance of stuff to talk about doesn't make talking any less anxiety-inducing for me, and probably for her.

So I'm somewhat confounded on how to ask her on a date and where to go. We're both broke college students, ruling out pretty much anything that costs money. When you're already dating there's that mutual understanding that you're both broke and you're just gonna do broke people stuff, but I can hardly ask her if she wants to come over and watch Netflix as a first date.

Someone I tutor said they can lend me a you-and-a-friend pass for the Exploratorium (science museum in San Francisco) but that's almost an hour away. I've never gone anywhere near that far for a date, much less a first one. If you all think it's more plausible than I do, let me know.

So as you can tell I'm new to dating in college. Am I supposed to somehow circumvent the literal "dating" and just go straight to "being in a relationship?" Is there some kind of nerdy broke guy secret to romanticism? In terms of game theory I've certainly got the upper hand, but I'm not sure how to play it.

Help me out, hivemind.

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<bot>: Experimental results show an atypically low reaction rate in the synthesis of a nerd relationship by standard methods. New reaction mechanisms should be explored.