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?

 
Best Response

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

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

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."
 

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