OMG UPDATE: Question? Answer.

Updated on Sunday, March 22

#7024

QUESTION:
If you like your teaching assistant and you think she might be into you as well, when is a good time to ask her out? After exams? What if I never see her again? Can I ask her out after the last class she teaches me, or is that weird? We're the same age.

7 comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 22, 2015 at 8:10 PM

    As a rule, one's students are gross. Good luck with this.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 22, 2015 at 10:59 PM

      Oh man, I must have absolutely misread everything that happened between us the last few months! I'll take your word on it and avoid making an ass out of myself, thanks pal.

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    2. AnonymousMarch 22, 2015 at 11:13 PM

      2 WAIT okay I'm back ... so as a rule I'm gross while I'm her student, but when I'm not her student anymore I might not be gross? I don't have to bail on this completely?

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    3. AnonymousMarch 25, 2015 at 10:43 PM

      I don't think you can just assume that all TAs consider their students "gross". I'm a TA and have known plenty of TAs who teach their peers and friends (and probably people they'd date....) . If you think there's something there then go for it!

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    4. AnonymousMarch 25, 2015 at 10:55 PM

      @1c If you don't consider your students gross, you're underqualified. The gap in wisdom is, at best, off-putting and forms an unequal power dynamic. If you don't feel this, maybe you shouldn't be teaching.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 23, 2015 at 2:44 AM

    DO IT. Better to hear a no, than never know what may have happened imo

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    1. AnonymousMarch 23, 2015 at 9:16 AM

      Getting rejected feels better than never trying at all

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