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Last Lecture of a Dying Man

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:32 am
by termyt
Great speech. Dr. Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon and,
according to his doctors, has only a short time left before pancreatic
cancer steals his health and his life.

Carnegie Mellon has a lecture series where professors are asked to give a speech as if it were the last lecture they could give before dying. Dr. Pausch actually is dying, so how apropos is that?

The short version (via Oprah):
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

The full version (via ABC News): http://abcnews.go.com/gma/lastlecture#

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:17 am
by TalKeaton
-_- I just watched part of this in Programming.

Because he was one of the ones responsible for the programming tool Alice.

And as much as I respect the guy... I hate Alice with a burning passion.

Still, the speech is good.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:40 am
by sharien chan
We saw this in my ed psych course. Not sure why since it really had nothing to do with our class...then again nothing we did in that class had anything to do with mentoring (the whole point of the class to begin with)

PostPosted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:28 am
by beau99
termyt (post: 1215041) wrote:Great speech. Dr. Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon and,
according to his doctors, has only a short time left before pancreatic
cancer steals his health and his life.

Yet, he's lived for 5 years with it, and plans to live much longer.