Randy Paush Post

Randy Paush was born in 1960; he died of liver tumors this past year. Paush gave lectures that were very motivational. One question he asked the audience at the beginning of his lecture was "If you had on last lecture to give before dying, what would it be?" Randy Paush spoke to people about their childhood dreams and the lessons they learned growing up. He went on to accomplish very many of his own childhood goals throughout his life. He was always encouraging students to follow their childhood dreams.

Randy Paush was a professor at MIT. He designed a program called Building Virtual Worlds. The program gave students a whole new way of learning by allowing them to access the virtual world while still learning important information. I thought this program was a really amazing idea because a learning experience like that will most likely help students remember what they are actually learning.

Professor Paush also put together a team of students to compete in a NASA competition. The grand prize was a ride on the Comet Vomit. His team won and got to experience what it was like to be an astronaut. This was an amazing opportunity that his students will remember for a lifetime. He was always pushing the students to work hard and their hard work definitely paid off in this situation. I couldn't imagine the feeling they must have had getting to experience something like this firsthand.

This video was so neat. Randy Paush was truly an amazing professor. He knew exactly what to do to motivate his students and get them to work hard to achieve their gaols and aspirations. I thought is was so cool how he was a believer in following childhood dreams because not too many people do that anymore. Everyone gets caught up in everyday life and forgets about what they really want for the,selves but Paush really helps his students achieve their childhood dreams. He pushes them and makes them work hard so that his students will be able to say one day that they achieved their dreams just as he did for himself. I enjoyed watching this video and it gave me the motivation I needed to push myself to work harder at reaching my goals I have set for myself.