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Professor Gives New Meaning to "The Last Lecture" Series
As Jeffrey Zaslow of The Wall Street Journal reports, a growing number of universities are conducting a lecture series in which professors are asked to give hypothetical last lectures—as in, if they only had one shot left, what would they tell their students. It's a great idea in itself, but for 46-year-old Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, the term "last lecture" takes on true meaning. Professor Pausch has pancreatic cancer and expects to have only a few weeks or months to live.
Click here for the 4:40 minute video.
A week after that first video ran, which resulted in a rush of public response, Zaslow ran this update:
Click here for the 4:20 minute video follow-up.
Click here for the entire 1.5 hour lecture (includes introductions by colleagues and friends).
As Jeffrey Zaslow of The Wall Street Journal reports, a growing number of universities are conducting a lecture series in which professors are asked to give hypothetical last lectures—as in, if they only had one shot left, what would they tell their students. It's a great idea in itself, but for 46-year-old Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, the term "last lecture" takes on true meaning. Professor Pausch has pancreatic cancer and expects to have only a few weeks or months to live.
