Randy Paush Last Lecture

Randy Paush was born in 1960 and died in 2008 of liver tumors. He lived an amazing and adventurous life. As a child, he had several childhood dreams in which he accomplished several of them. In his lecture, he talked about topics such as his childhood dreams, enabling others, and lessons learned. In the begging of the lecture, he introduced a question to the audience and asked, "If you had one last lecture to give before dying, what would it be?"
Randy was a professor at MIT. He put together a team of students to compete in a competition for a chance to win a ride on NASA Comet Vomit. Mr. Paush group won the competition and got the chance of a life time experience of ridding on the Comet Vomit. This was a first class hands on experience for both him and his students. In his teaching methods, first hand experiences seemed top be very important. I feel that some students learn better through hands on experiences and that's exactly how Mr. Paush taught.
He came up with a program called Building Virtual Worlds, which allowed students to experience things of the virtual world while learning harder concepts. He called this the "head fake" approach. I thought that was a clever idea. He also show cased students projects through exhibitions to encourage them to work harder. He listened to his students and tried to turn them on to following their childhood dreams.
The lecture was very interesting and informational. There was one thing that stuck with me the entire time I watched the video, which was the quote about the brick wall. The quote stated: " Brick walls are there for us so that we can prove how badly we want something." He ended the lecture using the head fake approach, in which he told the real reason for this lecture. That reason was to show the audience how to lead their life and for his children. I enjoyed the entire lecture and learned a lot from it.