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?

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods."
 

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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