Randy Pausch Last Lecture

I have watched Randy Pausch Last Lecture many times and it inspires and motivates me more each time. Randy was a wonderful, brilliant man who gave so much to others in numerous ways. He taught at MIT and Carnegie Mellon and challenged his students to be the best that they could be. He went beyond achieving his childhood dreams and even enabled others in fulfilling their dreams.
Having worked hard to achieve his childhood dreams, Randy used his experiences in motivating his students to work just as hard. He believed in his students and their dreams. His pioneer course, Building Virtual Worlds, gave his students the opportunity to show Pausch how gifted and excited they were about their projects. He was "blown away" by their work and challenged them to go farther. Putting his students into groups, Pausch's course was all about bonding.
When Pausch moved to Carnegie Mellon he was part of The Dream Fulfillment Factory. This course consisted of artists and technologists working together making things. Through the hard work of Pausch and his colleague, ETC became a global phenomenon. They invented a novel way of teaching computer programming called "Alice". Pausch used peer feedback to help his students take critism and use it to their advantage.
Randy Pausch was an inspiration. His thought on life and education was, "Brick walls are there for a reason; they let us prove how badly we want things". He ran into many walls and still fulfilled his childhood dreams. His respect for his family, friends and students inspired him to enable the dreams of others. My favorite bit of knowledge he shared was," Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted". What a awesome thought and man!