[SolarCat]

Dear Graduate School,

I dislike when you have projects that require me to bother people at work to complete the assignment. Work is paying for my classes but not my time to attend/do homework, and asking others to watch a presentation or provide me with information on their own time is rather unfair to them. Not to mention, I work for a rather large company who has quite a few limits on what sorts of information can be shared about Corporate's methods for accomplishing things, meaning I must review everything presented in light of "Can this be told to others outside the company?" and frequently the answer is "no."

I won't say I don't see the benefits of looking into how my work makes business decisions... I had a rather interesting conversation today about project cost prioritization... But I had to squeeze in 10 minutes into a rather high-level manager's schedule to discuss this information based upon a topic provided yesterday for an essay due tonight. What would I have done if he was on a business trip, or too busy to see me? What would I have done if I were a new hire without the ability to get the recommendation from the person who got me into this manager's schedule in the first place?

I know you provide alternatives if you can't achieve the necessary information, but they're geared 100% towards full-time students fresh out of undergraduate school, and are inaccessible to me without burning vacation days I don't have.

Isn't it possible to find some middle ground?

Signed, me