We're still exploring the possibility that life exists, or could have existed, on other planets and moons in our solar system. If we can't even rule that out, and there are 100,000,000 other stars just in our galaxy, and 2,000,000,000,000 other galaxies in the observable universe, I'd say the odds are pretty high that other life forms exist.
The odds of two civilizations that evolved separately on different planets actually meeting each other are incredibly low. Time may be an even bigger barrier than space. There has been space travel for less than 100 years, or 0.000002% of Earth's 4.5 billion year history.
Of course, as Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains it, if there is a multi-verse with infinite universes, there are infinite versions of each of us walking around on infinite other Earths, regardless of life on other planets in our own universe.
Anyways, how's Texas A&M Commerce lookin' this year?