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The Last Lecture. Dr. Randy Pausch. The Department of History 99103011 Danny Lin 99103041 Jill Lee 99103042 Iris Lin 99103044 Joe Yang. December 8th ,2010. Outline. Basic data of the talk Randy Pausch’s Profile Summary of talk Good Sentences Vocabulary we learn
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The Last Lecture • Dr. Randy Pausch The Department of History 99103011 Danny Lin 99103041 Jill Lee 99103042 Iris Lin 99103044 Joe Yang December 8th ,2010
Outline • Basic data of the talk • Randy Pausch’s Profile • Summary of talk • Good Sentences • Vocabulary we learn • Comments to the talk
Basic data of the talk • Topic: The Last Lecture • Speaker’s name: Dr. Randy Pausch • Date: September 2007 • Location: Carnegie Mellon University • The length of the talk: 1:44
Randy Pausch’s Profile • An Professor of Carnegie Mellon University • Found that he had pancreatic cancer in September, 2006 • In August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis: “ 3 to 6 months of good health left ”
Summary of the talk • My childhood dreams • Enabling the dream of others • How you can achieve your dreams
My Childhood Dreams • Being in zero gravity • Playing in the NFL • Authoring an article in the world and Being Captain Kirk • Winning stuffed animals • Being a Disney Imagineer
Enabling the dream of others • How can I enable the childhood dreams of ohthers • He created a course named Virtual Worlds in Carnegie Mellon • Don Marinelli and he created what he would call the dream fulfillment factory─The Entertainment Technology Cente • Alice is a project he worked on for a long time. It’s a novel way to teach
How you can achieve your dreams • Timing • Estimate yourself • Train your determination in hard environment • Don’t limit your creativity
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.
Never lose the child-like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us.
Vocabulary we learn • meritorious adj. meaning: deserving great praise • presumptuous adj. meaning: a person who is presumptuous shows little respect for others by doing things they have no right to do • sabbatical adj. meaning: a period of time when college or university teachers are allowed to stop their usual work in order to study or travel, usually while continuing to be paid
Vocabulary we learn • obnoxious adj. meaning: very unpleasant or rude • sophomore n. meaning: a student studying in the second year of a course at a US college or high school • undaunted adj. meaning: still determined and enthusiastic, despite problems or no success
Comments to the talk Jill: Travel around the world and eat lots of delicious foods. Danny: Fulfill the dream i haven’t achieve and cherish the time getting along with my family and good friends. • If we only have 3 months to live we will..... Iris: Keep in touch with my old friends. Jeo: Change the world!!!!!!!