mate,
this scenario that you have found yourself in, is something that i deeply sympathise in.. as when i was at uni, i was virtually in love with this girl for the first two entire years...
she 100% friend-zoned me.
I waited patiently, was the nicest guy to her... did things that other girls would dream about their boyfriends doing for them. I was infatuated with her for both her personality and looks, we had a very deep connection.
Some on those things i did for her. Keeping her company, being playful, buying her gifts, supporting her in her studies, even met the whole family just didnt hook her...
When i met her i had a GF which i broke up with, in order to be with this girl.
(perhaps this may have been part of the reason why i never ended up with her, as she met me initially as a taken guy and a no-go zone?)
...it was frustrating as I did everything she could ever want, but got flat out friend-zoned for two years...
Maybe this might help you or not, i cant really advise you on this because i myself failed at it.
There came a point, where after so many 'not right now' type responses, i had had enough, and needed to know where i stood... i asked her honestly, and seriously, would she
ever be my girlfriend. The speech i had memorised and even written down and rehearsed infront of the mirror was immense, a collaboration of every misleading romantic movie ive ever seen....
....her answer was NO
at that point i resigned myself from her. I told her, that in order to ever be happy again and with someone else, i couldnt stay friends with her... MY personal weakness is seeing a girl i like with soemone else... and i knew that with her, i couldnt possibly handle it.
After being basically best friends, and virtually living together for 2 years, i walked away and never saw her again. One of the toughest decisions ive made in my life!
do i regret it??
yes and no...
... i think it could quite easily be viewed as the cowards way out, and perhaps that is true. But i am a man of facts and black and white information. I knew that despite a tough initial settling period, i could get over it, and that without her around me, i would move on more quickly!
Now i can look back and say honestly, that i would never consider her as a possible match for me in the slightest 'not now at least'. and would have no problems seeing her now, as a friend, I am infact very confident that if we ever met again, through a university reuinion or something, i think ive developed enough to perhaps make her doubt herself!!
Also, if i were to meet her for the first time now, i beleive that with my current knowledge and experience, i could have taken our relationship into a very different direciton from the off, and had i done that, things would have panned out differently!
anyways, all im saying is... thats how i dealth with my situation, its an option, your decision...
Kowlaski's advice earlier is similar to what i would do if i ever had another opportunity at this scenario
Good luck.
Picard.