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Post by Ice on Dec 5, 2008 22:00:29 GMT -5
I bought Randy Pausch's book, The Last Lecture, today, and just finished reading it... have any of you read it? Basically, a lot of college campuses do a "Last Lecture" thing, and professors give lectures to convey what they would want to say before they died. Randy Pausch, a now deceased comp sci professor at Carnegie Mellon University, gave one ( video of lecture), and it really was his last, because he had metastatic pancreatic cancer (most patients tend to die within a year or two). He then published a book with a similar premise, telling stories about his life. It was pretty inspiring... the guy certainly has done some amazing stuff in his life.
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Post by Anne on Dec 6, 2008 4:29:27 GMT -5
I believe I saw him on Oprah. Didn't really care much. XDD
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Post by Nick on Dec 6, 2008 21:48:31 GMT -5
I saw the book in the store the other day, but I only leafed through a bit of it xD
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Post by Mel on Dec 8, 2008 18:56:19 GMT -5
I've seen (part of) the actual lecture on YouTube. xD It was pretty good. Took forever to load, though.
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Post by Ice on Dec 8, 2008 22:03:04 GMT -5
^ Yeah, the video's like an hour long... still gotta get around to watching it. XD
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