Randy Pausch. *317*

“I have an engineering problem. While for the most part I’m in terrific physical shape, I have ten tumors in my liver and I only have a few months left to live.” This sentence is the first line of The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, who had a wife and three kids and was only 47. He was dying, he knew it, but even though he was dealing with depression of having to leave his friends and family, Randy decided he wasn’t going to dwell too much, and he was going to do all he could with the time he had left. Which brought him to have a “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon about “How to achieve your Childhood Dreams” and “Two Main Head-fakes.” The head-fakes were “1) This lecture is about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. 2) The lecture was not for you in the audience, it was for my children.” This book was decided to teach his children about his life and how to live there since he can’t be the father he would like to be.

            The audience is anyone who will listen, but was mainly for his kids. The source is a little advanced for me, but that was because he was a college professor and an intellectual human being. The information is valid and well-researched. The ideas are his life and his beliefs, it is an autobiography, and Pausch wrote this himself. Which makes it correct and he was not bias about himself. No it does not update other sources.

Pausch, Randy. "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." Lecture. Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. Carnegie Mellon University: McConomy Auditorium,, Pittsburgh, PA. 18 Sept. 2007. Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. Carnegie Mellon University, 30 Sept. 2007. Web. 7 Nov. 2013.