Meeting people

[Insane_Steve]

I am a Junior going to a large campus (Purdue -- West Lafayette) and despite there being thousands of people out there I'm having a hard time meeting people I want to be around. I have a small-ish circle of friends that I hang out with, they're awesome but they're a lot like me in that they don't really get out much outside this circle.

I'm currently living in a dorm, but the floor I'm living on seems to be the bizarrely anti-social floor. My plan was to meet a couple people from this floor and go out and party with them every so often, but none of them ever seem to get out much or do anything together (unlike the last years I've been here). There's a few student organizations that I'm in but they don't meet much with the exception of one, and that's where most of the people I know now come from.

I've also been single for far too long (read: essentially my entire life, my last date was I think early 2005 with someone I really had no interest in from the start) and need some opportunities to meet [available] girls on campus. (Hence why I'm trying to find a party group, my current friends don't really party all that much.) I'm really not the type to just out of nowhere introduce myself to someone with no reason, so my best bet is either to give myself a reason or become more outgoing, both which are proving far harder than I thought they would. I turn 21 in December and would at least like to have some experience with women before I'm of age. Fortunately for me I have decent game considering how little I actually interact with girls, but this is useless if I can't interact with them in the first place.

So, how so I form new circles of friends? Specifically, a group of people I can go out with on weekends and just have a good time with. I thought this would be easier this semester since I planned to get out and meet more people but the ideas I had haven't panned out, at all. Help?

Cliff notes: I suck at meeting people, I suck worse at meeting women, I'm sick of this and need to change ASAP.