I go to a university library in order to work on my studies. While there I'm surrounded by beautiful women and every cell in my body is screaming for an opportunity to go talk to them. There's just one problem. I'm in a designated "quiet area" or "no talking zone", and people seem to take their studying seriously. That said, in later hours, when there are less people around, it seems the opportunity to approach is better and things are more relaxed, though most people still there are still quiet.

I've yet to execute an approach like this but I've thought up a few strategies that could work. One would be to comment on anything circumstantial they might have, like a laptop stand. Another would be to ask for directions to something obvious. A third would be to take advantage of situations; for example today, a girl next to me got up several times and left her laptop behind, and I thought about jokingly telling her when she returned that someone was trying to take her stuff, but I fended him off and even snapped a picture of him - and then showing her a selfie of me grinning, letting her know that it was a joke, and using that as a crutch to introduce a conversation. Feel free to rate the autism of the last approach idea.

My question is, does anyone have advice or experience with these kinds of approaches? I realize the policy in university libraries may vary, I've been in some where people talk freely in groups and are rather noisy, but it seems the majority of the space in this one is for quiet work and people take the silence seriously. I'm also a foreigner here, which is a double-edged sword - foreigners generate intrigue here, but I don't want to be "another stupid foreigner" conforming to the rule-breaking stereotype. There are some designated "talking" areas too in the library, but strangely enough when I've been there the people there are silent and solitary, and there is also a cafe, but that's an entirely different kind of venue, and I don't see the same cuties there I see in the library. My instinct is that the "DGAF, just start talking" approach would be loud and disruptive, and not well received by the people around me, not to mention it's so silent everyone would hear every detail of my approach.