Please don't take this too seriously.

[Lorizael]

Guys... I'm totally going to bang this chick. I... I think she's flirting with me in the feedback she left me for the last homework I turned in.

So, briefly, we had to diagram the sentence, "Alice swatted the fly with her hand." English sentences can be constructed such that the prepositional phrase "with her hand" can be attached to the verb phrase "swatted" or the noun phrase "the fly." But, obviously, "the fly with her hand" is not a grammatical construction, so in this case it has to be attached to the verb phrase instead. When I pointed this out, her feedback to me was:

That's one possible correct answer. (I'll confess I had high hopes that you might be the person to come up with a suitably gory context to legitimate the NP+PP reading...)

I'm not exactly quick on the uptake socially speaking, but that's flirting, right? I'm totally gonna bang this chick, aren't I?

[rah]

Normally I would advise caution when trying to make sense out of mutterings by the better sex, but something is going on here.
I think you're reading it correctly. Good luck. Don't get paranoid at the last minute and blow it.

[Lorizael]

Paranoid? What would I have to be paranoid about? What do you know that I don't?

[rah]

Everything and Nothing.

[ricketyclik]

Guys... I'm totally going to bang this chick.

One of the most beautiful sentences in any language.

[Kidlicious]

Make sure you ask her if it's alright to have sex with her instead of just doing it.

[ricketyclik]

I hate women. I'm posting this to inform you of this fact, because I know you care a lot about what I think.

FTFY

[Lorizael]

I'm a big fan of the whole enthusiastic consent thing. And of talking about things in advance. And of not getting carried away.

[Bereta_Eder]

I've gone through several varieties of this approach in my head. Some of them involve being "clever" by saying I have questions about the exam, and then asking when she thinks they'll be graded by, and then going from there.

That's the problem, you overthink too much (pleonasm much).
But you knew that.
Whereas it is supposed to be a dance.
You can't really plan a dance with someone you haven't danced before so you improvise.
You can bang your head against the wall trying to do the steps, but next time a little less and a little less etc (and things would be hugely more easy if you drunk a bit. Not that I recommend it )

[Bereta_Eder]

[Lorizael]

Good thought. I'll show up drunk to my next linguistics class.

[Jon Miller]

I know that when I was a TA, I was made uncomfortable if a student flirted with me/etc. This is even when I was a lonely, desperate person.

Also, I think that you have a good chance to get into a relationship with her. You seem to be a lot more capable and experienced than most of my friends/acquitances in undergrad/grad, and so you should just follow your instincts.

JM

[Lorizael]

You seem to be a lot more capable and experienced than most of my friends/acquitances in undergrad/grad, and so you should just follow your instincts.

[ricketyclik]

It is JM, so you know... Everything's relative.

[Colonâ„¢]

Can't speak for others, but I've never had a woman send me nude pictures of herself.