Has anyone here gotten a girlfriend without cold approaching?

Introvert here. I've had a girlfriend before in highschool but that relationship basically fell in my lap. She was added to a group chat through my other friends and we hit it off, so I never actually had to do anything other than have friends to have a gf.

I've been single for 3 years now, I'm 21, and I'm in college. I have a few friends and plan on meeting people through said friends, I also plan on being more proactive in clubs to meet people/their friends ect.

Thing is i fucking hate smalltalk outside of social situations in most cases, I do it sometimes but only when it feels good, and I just would never cold approach a girl randomly around campus, I would have genuinely nothing to say.

Anyone here meet a girlfriend "naturally"? (I e you didn't have to cold approach her and you eventually asked her out after getting to know eachother or the relationship just kinda happened after being friends)

What was it like?