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February 2015
Cipher
Teacher New Year’s Resolutions
By RACHEL HODES ‘18
By EITAN DARWISH ’17
Chris Krow
As amazing as our teachers are, they aspire to be even better. This New Year’s they look forward on 2015 with their own New Years Resolutions:
Noel Capozzalo I resolve to... • Cultivate my online persona.
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I am 95% confident that I resolve to... • Use the word "conversation" less. • Be more patient with students who fix their coffee in front of the coffee. • Be less funny (it distracts from my teaching of math, which isn't naturally funny) • Assign homework that only takes 30 minutes instead of "5 hours." • Make another friend at school. • Stop saying "I used to be good at this" before I demonstrate anything at track practice. • Trust people with beards. • Pretend to be Scandinavian.
Jennifer Gentle This year I resolve to... • Play the banjo. A story about this resolution: I've been saying for a few years now that maybe one day I'll pick up the banjo, but why not now? When I was in Louisville during winter break, I rented one and my friend gave me a few lessons. I learned a riff from "Cripple Creek" and it's so much fun. I love contra dancing partly because of the music, and maybe one day I'll play banjo in the house band!
Chris Doire
Jamie Lieberman
This year I resolve to... • Bake more bread and braise more meats. • Crack more lame jokes in the classroom. • Attend to that thing I've been putting off, but it's time, no denying it.
This year I resolve to... • Put in place a much-needed revision of the 9th grade world history final exam, replacing the multiple choice section with a performance art component on the rise and fall of ancient civilizations.
This is a basic substitution cipher, where letters of the cipher text are substituted for specific letters in the plain text. Those who solve it can send the solution to:
insight@friendsseminary.org The first three to email us will have their names featured in the next edition. Good luck!
“ncgdu gmrfk mrydul, xgp'bb oydt mrnm xgp'kf dgm mrf oyklm hfklgd srg snl fqfk egdoplft ndt okyurmfdft ndt fqfd lyeafdft ix rpcnd ifrnqygk. xgp'kf ix dg cfndl nbgdf gd mrnm legkf, xgp'bb if fveymft ndt lmycpbnmft mg adgs. cndx, cndx cfd rnqf iffd wplm nl mkgpibft cgknbbx ndt lhykympnbbx nl xgp nkf kyurm dgs. rnhhybx, lgcf go mrfc afhm kfegktl go mrfyk mkgpibfl. xgp'bb bfnkd okgc mrfc—yo xgp sndm mg. wplm nl lgcftnx, yo xgp rnqf lgcfmrydu mg goofk, lgcfgdf sybb bfnkd lgcfmrydu okgc xgp. ym'l n ifnpmyopb kfeyhkgenb nkkndufcfdm. ndt ym ykd'm ftpenmygd. ym’l rylmgkx. ym’l hgfmkx.” –w.t. lnbydufk, mrf enmerfk yd mrf kxf