Author janinenm Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 Thank you Link to post Share on other sites
RESO Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I wouldn't worry too much. Plenty of PhD students date undergrads. It's really common. They just tend to be honest about who they are dating with their supervisors and make sure they don't end up teaching next semester. He (and you) will be fine Link to post Share on other sites
Jane2011 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 It depends on the university and the department, I would say. There's no one-size-fits-all here. In my department/university, there have been cases of profs sleeping with undergraduate students, and they got away with it (in one case, he had to marry her because he got her pregnant). I know that their counterparts in other universities weren't so lucky. Still, I find the whole thing quite disgusting. I would never even consider dating an undergraduate -- not just because of the age difference (I'm 29, so older than many graduate students in my department) but also because of a mental "block" that prevents me from doing that. Well, note that my whole post was referring to TA's not profs. Not saying it's an ideal thing even then, but I did make that distinction. It's not as big a deal to me when it's a TA who's a student who's about the same age as the undergraduate student. So when I said "it's not career ruining," I'm talking about the young TAs... Those are the ones I know of who have had involvements with their students, and no scandal has ever ensued. Link to post Share on other sites
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