5AM Ramblings » books http://juchiu.scripts.mit.edu/blog Jason's blog of his day Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:56:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Last Lecture http://juchiu.scripts.mit.edu/blog/2008/11/19/last-lecture/ http://juchiu.scripts.mit.edu/blog/2008/11/19/last-lecture/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:57:27 +0000 Jason http://juchiu.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=43 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.

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