Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Exuberant ‘Last Lecture’

[007]

Something that I found very touching.


Randy Pausch Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...31505846055184

[Angie1313]

I seen this the other day on TV...I thought it was very inspiring.

[007]

I know. It was one of the best video I saw in like few months. One thing that was really interesting is that the prof was still smiling knowing that he was gonna die one day.

[iGo]

WOW. Good post for sure. I saw a short version of this on oprah a while ago. Thanks for the full ink. I'll make some time to watch this.