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[Apologies for the delay; it's been a hectic week, but things are finally settling down. If there's an appropriate format for reports, let me know.]

The switchboard experiment went fairly well. Implementing the structure itself still isn't as instinctive as it could be, but as it turns out it's not so different from techniques I've employed in the past for similar things. Getting it to the point where the adaptions are second-nature is just a matter of practice.

One thing this did highlight was that while I can maintain contact with multiple minds relatively easily, I still have difficulty finding less-familiar minds to initiate the link. Most of the time I found myself piggybacking off Nathan's connection rather than striking out to establish one of my own. In the past I've never been in a situation where I couldn't use the physical cue of physical sight (if not eye-contact) to facilitate that sort of link before the fact, but I recognize this may not always be an option. The professor agrees; it's a purely psychological limitation that, again, only requires practice to overcome. Maybe I can work on this during some kind of team-exercise?