Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He taught a class much like EDM310 at Carnegie Mellon University other than it was all Project Based Learning. In this class all his students were in groups of five and every two weeks they were expected to turn in a project. Every two weeks you would get new partners and you'd have four new people to work with and try to make a new project which I think is neat. It makes you work better with others and makes it where if you don't like your group your in you won't be stuck in that same group throughout the semester.
In 2006, he diagnosed with cancer and was told that he only had a couple months to live, but he didn't let that stop him from living his life. In his video Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. He explained his dreams as a child. Some of them involved him becoming a National Football Player to being a Disney Imagineer. These are just some of the few that he said in his lecture but that was two of the most interesting to me. As a kid he had a lot of big dreams. Unfortunately his dream of being the the NFL (National Football League) never came true but as for his dream of being an Disney Imagineer, it became a reality. It took a lot of time and a lot of hard work but it was worth it. As an Disney Imagineer he got to work on the movie Aladdin and after that he brought everything that he had learned while working their to his classroom while he was teaching.
Some of the things I learned while watching this video was to never get up. No matter how hard things get or how people don't believe you can do something all you have to do is believe in yourself and with that you can accomplish things you would never have dreamed of. He gave me hope as a person that I can do anything if you believe you can.
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