Many of the MPTC faculty are taking a class in which they'll discuss a book by Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch called The Last Lecture. There's really no better way to introduce the book than to quote from its' own web page:
On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called "really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." with slides of his CT scans beaming out at the audience, randy told [them] about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.
That lecture became a phenomenon.
View a 5-plus-minute video excerpt of the lecture...
View the one-hour and sixteen-minute lecture here in its entirety:
You can even (gasp) read the book (gasp). We have copies at all MPTC campus libraries:
call number QA 76.2 .P38 A3 2008
