Blog Post 7

This video is on Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. This particular speech is on achieving your childhood dreams. He starts off by saying that he only has about 2 to 4 months of good health left. This was because he has tumors in his liver. This was astonishing, because he did not look bad at all and he seemed fine. He goes on to say that he will only talk about today on how to achieve childhood dreams, enable the dreams of others, and the lessons learned. These lesson are how you can achieve your childhood dream and enable the dreams of others.
The next part Mr. Pausch explains his childhood dreams and what they were. Like any other kid his dream was to play in the NFL. And just about like any other kid this dream did not come true. But he did say that he learned more from this dream than any other dream he did accomplish. He explained what he did get from football and how he feels most comfortable on a football field. Some of the things he did get from football was it is all about hard work and fundamentals. He states that football teaches you about the game of life. And he gives a quote saying that "experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted". This he says is how football helped him even though he did not achieve his dream of playing in the NFL.
Mr. Pausch goes on in his lecture and talks about how to enable childhood dreams of others. He says that he is glad that he became a professor. This is because that he thinks this is a great way to enable the dreams of others. He does this project that he explains and he gives his student groups some guidelines and they came back with their project notes. And this astonished the professor Mr. Pausch and he did not know what to tell them. So he got some advice and that was to tell them that they can do better. He says that this was great advice, because setting the bar to low is harmful to young students and they may not reach their potential. He goes on to say that this is the best way to enable a kids dream is to always say that this was good but I think you can do better.
The final thing is that Mr. Pausch teaches the ETC which he explains that it is a very different kind of masters degree. It is full of projects. Mr. Pausch explains that it is all hands on and it is not book guided. He goes on to say that he hates textbooks and the best way to teach is hands on. The biggest success of the ETC was learning how to work in groups and focusing on people. Also Mr. Pausch took the ETC global: Australia, Singapore, and Korea. Another thing is that ETC has written agreements from companies that will hire their students. Mr. Pausch is a great professor and is always embracing new things. He knows how to enable students to think and to give them fun ways to learn.