i am not sure how many of you have seen this video, but i think it is worth watching whether you have or not.
"Randy Pausch is a married father of three, a very popular professor at Carnegie Mellon University—and he is dying. He is suffering from pancreatic cancer, which he says has returned after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say he has only a few months to live.
In September 2007, Randy gave a final lecture to his students at Carnegie Mellon that has since been downloaded more than a million times on the Internet. "There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?" Randy says. "Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical."
Despite the lecture's wide popularity, Randy says he really only intended his words for his three small children. "I think it's great that so many people have benefited from this lecture, but the truth of the matter is that I didn't really even give it to the 400 people at Carnegie Mellon who came. I only wrote this lecture for three people, and when they're older, they'll watch it," he says."
i was inspired as well as touched by the lecture. esp since i went to the same college (Brown) as well as graduate school (CMU) as Randy although i have never personally talked to him before. i hope you will find it as inspiring.
the video link is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
a condensed version:
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=8577255250907450469&hl=en
Randy's page is here:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
"Randy Pausch is a married father of three, a very popular professor at Carnegie Mellon University—and he is dying. He is suffering from pancreatic cancer, which he says has returned after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say he has only a few months to live.
In September 2007, Randy gave a final lecture to his students at Carnegie Mellon that has since been downloaded more than a million times on the Internet. "There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?" Randy says. "Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical."
Despite the lecture's wide popularity, Randy says he really only intended his words for his three small children. "I think it's great that so many people have benefited from this lecture, but the truth of the matter is that I didn't really even give it to the 400 people at Carnegie Mellon who came. I only wrote this lecture for three people, and when they're older, they'll watch it," he says."
i was inspired as well as touched by the lecture. esp since i went to the same college (Brown) as well as graduate school (CMU) as Randy although i have never personally talked to him before. i hope you will find it as inspiring.
the video link is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
a condensed version:
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=8577255250907450469&hl=en
Randy's page is here:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
) but the simplicity in the message is so obvious. Really, in so many situations in life, it's not what you say but how you say it. 
