Blog Post #8

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

After watching Randy Paucsh's video, I couldn't feel anything but more inspired and reverent of the field of study that I have chosen to make a career out of. Here we have Randy, an individual who is diagnosed with cancer and accepts that there isn't much that can be done to prevent it. However, this unfortunate ailment does not prevent him from doing what he likes to do. In his last lecture Randy provides 3 main points that he touches on: his childhood dreams, helping others fulfill their own dreams, and how to achieve the dreams.
For most of his life he seeks out his dream of working for the Imagineering team at Disney, but alas when the time comes he chooses instead to follow his career of being a professor. Here is a once in a life time chance for an individual that everyone dreams of and instead of working his dream job, he chose to educate students and tap into their own childhood dreams. For example, he showed a student he had that dreamed of working on future Star Wars movies, which the student did achieve shortly after graduating.
 It was inspiring how much joy he found in inspiring others even until the last of his days. The innovative ways that he found to make learning the hard stuff fun was ingenious and showed just how important and enjoyable he found in teaching. I found his takes on education to be quite refreshing and enlightening as soon I myself will be educating youths how to follow their own dreams. It would be nice one day to look back at not only my accomplishments, that the ones of so many others that I had helped pave the way for by introducing an innovative and entertaining education.