Blog Assignment 7

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

I thought this was a really inspirational speech from the beginning. From the start he told people he had cancer and he only had about six months to live, but he said do not pity me. He even talked about how great of shaped he was in and started doing push ups. Dr. Pausch made a lot of good points throughout his last lecture for everyone to listen to.
He first began by telling about each of his childhood dreams and then went on to show how he achieved all of them, or at least achieved more important things from them. He got to do such things like: ride on the "vomit comet" and experience zero gravity, meet his boyhood idol Captain Kirk, was an author of an article in The World Book Encyclopedia, and also be a Disney Imagineer. He shows that you should never give up on your childhood dreams.
He also wanted to be able to enable the childhood dreams of others. With this being said he got to work with a lot of different companies and industries but ultimately ended up as a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Being a professor was the perfect way to enable the childhood dreams of others. At Carnegie Mellon he started a new class called Building Virtual Worlds where they all had different projects to create. These virtual projects became so big they had to create a show at the end to show all of the great games and projects to the entire campus.
At the end of Dr. Pausch's speech he drove home a lot of great motivating points to help us along with our dreams. Some of these are, brick walls let us show our dedication, never bail or give up on your dreams no matter how unrealistic it seems, cherish feedback and use it, show gratitude, do not complain, work hard, and find the best in everybody. I think Randy Pausch's last lecture could help and inspire a lot of people.