Social events with lecturers

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Would you have ever gone on a social event with one of your uni lecturers whilst still at uni as an undergrad?

I've done this before and it's a bit weird to start off with but actually quite fun to see them in a different light. I'm now organising a Curry and Star Trek evening once it's released. I've talked to some of my lecturers and they said that they think it's a good thing as it helps students who go on to do PhDs to work with them as peers more than authority figures.

So would you feel uncomfortable doing this? Would you do it at all?
 
I would find it very weird. I can't even call my lecturers/professors by their first names and still get the urge to call out "SIR!" or "MISS?" when I want to get their attention. This could just be a case of me being stuck with a primary/secondary school mentality though :(
 
On my course we do it quite regularly, sometimes at home, but generally when we are out on fieldtrips we all socialise as a big group (2-3 weeks a year). It's always fun to see your lecturers drunk, especially moreso the morning after, although the other students who are feeling worse for wear the next morning would probably disagree. :p

I (and most of the people on my course) get on well with most of our lecturers to the point they buy occasional drinks and we chat after lectures and joke around.
 
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Also how important a lecturer the are, i.e. head of department or a relatively new lecturer just finished his Phd and working his way up the ranks. But agree completely it varies character to character and that's a large generalisation.
 
Depends completely on the lecturer.

In related news, my training for my professional qualifications is done in house so the people teaching us are fellow employees. We went on the stag do for one of our lecturers and ended up in Browns.
 
Never did it as an undergrad, and then found it incredibly unnerving when I started being invited round for dinner during my PhD. First time I drank too much over dinner and fell asleep on his sofa and he had to drive me home :o

Got used to it after a while, but I guess it would have been useful, as the OP said, to have been able to see them in a more sociable light prior to that.
 
I would find this weird in the first 2 years of my degree since the classes are large here for chemistry, and therefore it's quite impersonal in some ways, despite this, the teaching is fantastic.

My personal tutor took me and a few others out for a drink at the start of term, but that was just to get aquainted.

I think seeing some of the lecturers outside uni is weird enough, let alone drinking with them! Perhaps this will change as I move into the next 2 years as an undergrad as I will be forming closer relationships with project supervisors and the like.
 
Depended entirely on the lecturer, along with most of my class we went for a meal with the whole law department once and saw them at various social events in smaller groups but in general we didn't end up socialising with them too much. However one of our lecturers came to visit us in Finland on a study exchange trip and we had an awesome night of drinking and chatting nonsense - we'd always suspected he'd be a good lad on the beer and he proved it, RIP to Mr B as he sadly passed away last year.
 
NickM said:
I think it really depends on what kind of person the lecturer is ..
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Agreed, was talking to one of my lecturers recently about how mechatronics basically boils down to the ultimate goal of sexbots, a topic which he raised. Couldn't see myself having the same conversation with some of the other lecturers though.
 
A.N.Other said:
Wouldn't have an issue with that at all. We even went out with the staff from our school when I was 18 - drinks were on them.
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Same.

I've smoked something with an old art teacher.
I've being drinking with an old teacher, stay on his and his wifes (both taught me) sofa one night because I couldn't walk home ! haha
 
It depends who the lecturer is and what the social event is.

I have done a few times, during field trips when i did architecture. Which is basically going around the city looking at buildings and then lunch and dinner. We would talk about all kind of stuff, a glass of wine here and there but never over the line as in getting drunk.
 
When I was at uni we had loads of social events with the lecturers!

There would be department/school balls and dinners. They would come out on course nights out, and they would even come clubbing with us on field courses!
 
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