TIFU by helping a guy order poke, getting asked out, and finding out that he teaches at my university

Copy/pasted from another response above:

Hello, I am OP commenting from a different throwaway.

A few things: I told him I was a sophomore, and we both confirmed that we were from the same school. At my university, faculty-student relationships are forbidden under most circumstances.

I agree that he was just a nice guy trying to shoot his shot, and I don't think there is anything wrong with that, even considering the age gap (even if it's not comfortable for me personally). I said that I would give him the benefit of the doubt because he is from a country where they don't use terms like freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior. If he was American, he would have known that sophomore meant 19 or 20 years old (and therefore someone he could have taught), and he would have known that a relationship would be wrong.

To be perfectly clear, I agree that an age gap is legal between adults and can be fine in many circumstances (even if I have my own reservations about 19 years and 31 years). He knew that I was a student at the same university, which would be an issue if he also knew my age and consequently that I could have been a student, but he did not. It really was just an unfortunate circumstance, and I don't blame him for anything, nor do I think he did anything wrong in this situation.

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