Space Race

Dear Princess Celestia,

This week, I learned the importance of accurate and efficient communication. When you approved my budget on the 21st, I had no idea just how difficult running an entire program can be, especially when said program requires departments for several different scientific and magical fields of study. As it turns out, while I can easily outline and regulate the completion of tasks when they are already reasonably well defined, such as facilitating bird nest construction or conducting statistical surveys, when our goals require that information be transferred between groups, organization becomes significantly more difficult; as has been noted before, ponies are not all that great at sharing, whether it be land or knowledge. After numerous missteps between the engineering and thaumaturgy departments, I decided to bring Applejack onto the project, and her equine resource skills turned out to be just the thing we needed. Since she has started helping, we can finally begin research.

Your faithful former student,

Twilight Sparkle