Last Lecture
19 November 2008 | Jason
It was 5:30 when I ran out of things to do (except for psets and studying), so I went around revisiting my normal sites. I was on Wei’s blog when I encountered his most recent post. It was a post about productivity. Ironic, I know. One of his items referenced Randy Pausch. I knew I had heard that name before, and it took a few minutes before it clicked. Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He wrote a book named The Last Lecture that I got from my computer science teacher in high school as an award. I had been meaning to read the book for a while, and I had no excuse to not read. So, I picked up the book and began reading it. I watched an episode of Dateline about Randy Pausch and his book. It was an emotional show and I could feel myself tearing up watching it. The same thing wanted to happen as I was reading the book remembering his inspirational spirit and his story.
I need to read more often, especially including powerful pieces like this book. See Booklist.