Randy Pausch

“Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?” That is how Professor Randy Pausch, from Carnegie Mellon, began his last lecture, a speech entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” while in fact he was dying of Pancreatic Cancer. He knew he only had months left to live and put together this last lecture to read to his students. His lecture focuses in on points such as the importance of: making sincere apologies, not whining, being gracious and being humble. To stress his thoughts and views on life and following one’s dreams, Randy Pausch used a great amount of repetition, metaphors, allusion, humor, ethos, and pathos in his last lecture.

You would think a man dying of cancer would not be so happy and willing to spend the last few months of his life giving a lecture. But, Randy Pausch, who has 10 tumors in his liver, does not want people to pity him for having cancer. Rather, he wants to teach people how to follow their childhood dreams. Looking at the seven elements of communication we see how he is so effective in his last lecture.

Time management techniques are essential to living your life more efficiently. Many people spend their days in a frenzy of activity but achieve very little because they are not concentrating on the right things. By using time management skills, you can learn to determine which of the things you do are important, which can be dropped, use your time in the most effective way possible, break down the roadblocks that waste it, and increase the effectiveness.

Dr. Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, educated me with his powerful inspirational message. Dr. Randy Pausch, 47 years old man who has terminal cancer with a life expectancy of a few months gave me a life lesson. He thought me how to achieve dreams also how to face death. Being diagnosed with any kinds of cancer is devastating and despairing, but for him it was opposite; he was happy and cognitively healthy during his final lecture at Carnegie-Mellon University. He even said, “If I don 't seem as depressed or morosed as I should be, sorry to disappoint you” (Video) and continued lecturing. He hadn’t show any sadness or depression during his lecture

Time is a valuable resource, and in fact, some people get more out of their time than others. Time is a scarce resource meaning that there is not enough of the resource available to satisfy all of the ways I want to use it. Due to the fact that it is scarce, this means that my time must be allocated in such a way that I can get the most out of it. Being a full time student, working part-time, and playing college athletics is a tough feat. In fact, most of the time I struggle in deciding what to do and when. What I choose to do is a demonstration of my value system and some things are valued more than others.

Randy Pausch had many stories that anyone would love to hear. Every story that he would tell gave a lesson to the audience. One story that Mr. Pausch talked about was when he was pulled over for speeding and the cop asked him what brought him to Virginia (since Mr. Pausch had a Pennsylvania drivers license.) Mr. Pausch replied “Since you’ve asked, I have terminal cancer. I have just months to live. We’ve moved

I have always faced various challenges when it comes to managing my time. Some of the challenges I have are procrastination, knowing my priorities, and getting my priorities in order. I am very easily distracted and distractions are what causes me to procrastinate. I will tell myself that I will do something in five minutes, but then those five minutes go by and I tell myself another five minutes and so on. Putting time off is a way of telling myself that my priorities are not

Randy Pausch’s ‘Last Lecture’ really spoke to me and inspired me to dream and believe that anything is possible. Even if you don’t achieve every single dream you have for yourself, there is always a great lesson and experience to learn from each attempt. To try as hard as you can and fail, but you did all you could do, is not considered failure to me. When you hit a wall remember to keep going, because if you want it bad enough then you can break through.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch is a cruelly happy book. Pausch had been recently diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, but he amazingly stays buoyant all while giving magnificent life advice through his experiences. Pausch was a father of three, a graduate from Carnegie Mellon, a professor at the University of Virginia, a Disney Imagineer, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon. All of his experience and terrific qualifications come together to form a complex book. He has the goal throughout the book to guide people with his advice.

The Last Lecture began as a good-bye speech, made by Randy Pausch, a 47 year old professor diagnosed with terminal cancer. His speech at Carnegie Melon University became an Internet phenomenon. It has also been published as a book. I really thoroughly enjoyed his Last Lecture speech. He had a lot of good talking points and brought up some new perspectives, or ways of looking at life situations that got me thinking. He talked a lot about his dreams when he was a child and was very humorous and inspirational throughout his speech. He also had a lot of quotes that I really enjoyed and they are what I want to focus on.

In The Last Lecture, that is not the case. Randy Pausch died in 2008 due to pancreatic cancer. The fact that this is not a fictitious story makes it all the more harder to close the book. It is like you the reader are saying, “That’s it. That’s the end.” There is no follow up story afterwards. There is no fan made information that you can look up to further your knowledge of the character. There is a Wikipedia page that tells you the hard truth. Or, if you are looking through hard copies, there is an obituary somewhere about Randy Pausch: who, no matter how hard he tried, lost his battle and that little books one of the few things this world has left to remember him by.

In the words of Dawson (2004), "time management is all about taking control of your own time." In seeking to help adult learners regain control of their time, Dawson comes up with a number of effective time management strategies. Some of these strategies are highlighted herein. To begin with, Dawson (2004) recommends that one drafts a list of all those activities whose timing cannot be altered. These activities which Dawson refers to as "non-negotiable" activities could include attending lectures, private study and other important undertakings such as picking

Understanding that making time for one is not only useful for academic purposes, but for entertainment purposes as well.

Before we can manage our time we must know exactly what time is. The dictionary describes it as, the duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. How we dispose of that time is time management. It's the way we spend our time to organize and execute around our priorities. Remember just because time is intangible doesn't mean that it is not valuable. I want to teach you about the background of time management, the different styles and how to use them, and how it will change your life.

I am the kind of person who wants things done yesterday. With school, family, and life in general – it does not work that way. If I even think too much about the classes I still need to complete before I am even eligible to be in my major, I get bogged down. Instantly I get overwhelmed and feel like giving up. This quote has reminded me to slow down. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda”. This is telling me that you cannot have ultimate goal without finishing the small tasks it takes to get there