Apply to SPARC 2025! - by CJ Quines - SPARC '24 JC Blog

do it for the baby elephants

It’s winter in New York City, which means that: hundreds of ice skaters doth bestride the rink at Bryant Park, which doesn’t matter to me because I can’t skate, but it does mean my coworkers talk about skating every now and again congestion pricing is now live, and the streets of Manhattan have been clearing up it's time for those of you who are eligible and interested to share your writing with us like a happy baby elephant would What is SPARC, you might ask? Here's some excerpts from my blog post about it: it’s kinda about “growth”, or “doing what’s best for its participants”, or…

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