Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Today, I watched the last lecture of Randy Pausch. It was his last lecture because he died of pancreas cancer. He didnt shy away from this issue at any point during his lecture. In fact, it was a big part of his lecture, but he also was very quick to say that this would not be focus of his lecture. He even showed us some pictures of his house and his family. He said that he was looking forward for his family and that he wasnt feeling sorry for himself because of his condition.

He got to do some cool stuff in his life, like going into zero gravity, and being an imagineer for Disney, where he worked on the movie Aladdin. That part was very cool to me.He shared a lot of his other childhood dreams too.

He also did some pretty cool things with education too. For instance, at Carnige he made a class called virtual reality for $5 a day, in which the students were given a virtual lab to create whatever they wanted with no teachers or deans or anything. He also talked about something called the "head fake". This is taking something that wouldn't be fun in the classroom and making it fun.

I think that he did a great job with this lecture and the fact that he was able to be so happy and cheerful while he was basically dying was very inspirational to me because I could see that he clearly had a love for teaching.