Date or Networking?

I go to a target school H/Y/P and an associate at a really great buyside firm asked me out to drinks at a fancy restaurant / bar in NYC on a Friday night.

I can't tell if this was a networking invitation or a date.... We met once before very briefly and somehow found out my email, etc. I'm obviously hesitant to ask but I accepted the invitation. We exchanged numbers too.

Anyway, is this just normal networking and I'm overthinking this, or does this person actually think this is a date? Is this normal? Has this ever happened to you?

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Why would an associate at a "great buy side firm" go out of their way to network with a student?

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Love the hostility... And I'm not sure VolSurface. I'm clearly new to this and this seemed off. Hence, why I posed the question.

 

thanks for the update haha if she met you at a recruiting event/anything promoted by her firm, there's definitely grounds to fire her

 

Good man. Now it's time to blackmail her into an internship offer.

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