Ancalagon
09-24-2007, 08:44 PM
Hello
Universities have been recently asking professors to give "last lectures" - to write and deliver a lecture as if it was your last - what words of wisdom would you want to pass on?
Well, it turns out that for professor Randy Pausch, it IS his last lecture - he has advanced pancreatic cancer and has months, perhaps less, to live. He knows it, but he is not depressed about it.
Watch (or read) as he gives an upbeat, filled with hope speech. Powerful and moving stuff.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html
Universities have been recently asking professors to give "last lectures" - to write and deliver a lecture as if it was your last - what words of wisdom would you want to pass on?
Well, it turns out that for professor Randy Pausch, it IS his last lecture - he has advanced pancreatic cancer and has months, perhaps less, to live. He knows it, but he is not depressed about it.
Watch (or read) as he gives an upbeat, filled with hope speech. Powerful and moving stuff.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119024238402033039.html