Whaddup y’all hope all is well.

So I’ve been feeling pretty confident as of late and want to capitalize by trying to get with some girls. There’s this one girl who I like that’s from the same hometown as me and on top of that we both go to school in Boston. I believe we are both in the hometown for now but I don’t think we will cross paths at any point to where I could do a physical approach. So my question is: Is a dm an effective approach?/if it is, what’s the proper way to go about it?

Thanks in advance