Selam aleykum, sevgi! Nice to see you online here! InshaAllah Uni is going well.
I've got male friends aswell, sevgi. I just wouldn't use the words "I love them". It's not what I feel and not what our relationships are about, I'd rather say "I appreciate them" more than random people, haha... But I guess it's so much more different for you than it is for me. And I also believe, 'love' can be difficult to define, it's not always what it seems at first, c'mon people.
Yet I'll try my best to give you my personal perspective of this.
In an ideal Islamic world, we would live in a society where there would be minimal interaction between guys and girls from the get go. That is the standard that we should be living by, as muslims.
But at the same time, sadly, this ain't the idea Islamic world. Though I agree, we should strive for an as close Islamic standard as we possibly can. Do not despair, you try hard enough, it doesn't help you or your Emaan if you all of the sudden during your quest just start feeling all depressed and worthless or too far away from your goal. You have to take things in realistically.
What I would personally suggest, as a young female Muslim in an non-Islamic environment, is to take it step by step. No need to rush! just 'cause you've suddenly memorized the whole Qur'an, doesn't make you an Qur'an master, lol, it takes time to sink in and you learn things frequently.
Firstly you have to really understand
why it is very much disliked for females and males to interract except for strictly proffessional. Love, lust and fitnah... OK, but that ain't the case for you, you say. Even better! So you don't have to feel guilty for having done or thought something bad, that's one step ahead already. Then you slowly but steadily change the relationships you've got to these males, and females aswell. See what it is you gain from having a male friend and try to make it available around your female friends aswell.
I may sound hypocritical but inshaAllah I am just being very honest here, of both what i know and how I implement it in my own life as good as I can. This seems to be to be something of a "tabu" subject but as a matter of fact, many Muslims have both male and female friends, and friendship can be a difficult term, it is defined differently around the world. If you have a male friend you suddenly get HARAAAAM thrown at you, without being able always to explain your situation. It is not easy when islam isn't everwhere we go and we live in societies quite the opposite of our islamic values.
I have male friends, though I've never been that close to any of them. I have had them in my company often and still tend to have, but this is simply around school, I rarely see them outside school. This is something that I think for my Islamic side is very good, those relationships never had to develop outside school to be considered a 'friendship' according to me. I've never had to share my deepest secrets or the like, it is hard to explain. These are people I've known almost all my life and they simply are there, we have distances quite wide but still in times of need, we know we are friends. I just thought I should share a bit of my life to you, just to tell you this really is not something to despair for.
I personally find the way some of my male friends think to be extremly interesting, for example. They give a whole different perspective to things. But, as much as I'd like to discuss and hang out with them all day, I do not. As it's said "Less is better" and it can be used in many situations and I believe it does fit, if you are willing to see it, in this case aswell.
I hope I could help, inshaAllah!