Our Backpacking Trips

before professors become tenured at Carnegie Mellon, they sign a contract that forces them to give a “last lecture”. this “last lecture” is very hypothetical, ie. what if you die tomorrow, what would your last lecture be to your students?… you know hypothetical. so this professor named Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon who has pancreatic cancer with 12 tumors inside of his body. the doctors cannot operate on him. Pausch has a few more months to live before he dies. He is 37 with a wife and 3 kids. so his “last lecture” is LITERALLY THE LAST LECTURE. i highly recommend that you guys take 1 hr 20 mins out of your day to watch the CMU version of the video (and 10 mins to watch the oprah version of it – there are additional info). it has to do with life… how to achieve your dreams. how to look at things in a different prespective, when you think something has gone to shit, look at it in a different way… it wont seem that bad. i mean seriously… do you want to live your one life miserably? heck, i know i dont. i absolutely love his useage of “the brick wall” because i’ve hit so many of those and i still keep ramming my head into it…

 
oprah version

the actual CMU version.