The last lecture

Certainly I just figured out that my two latest posts titled with ‘last’ at the beginning. Anyway, I accidentally found an interesting book categorized as new releases yesterday at the KK library. At first, I thought that the book is a novel – one of a kind- I don’t know somehow seeing this book remind me to the – Notebook – which is bestseller authored by someone I already forgot.

OK, let us set foot again to the book I just previously mentioned. It turns out that the book actually written by Randy Pausch, a professor of human computer interaction at Carnegie-Mellon University. Well, for people who have taken computer science major when in college, will know that CMU is one of the best renowned universities especially in the field of computer study. And this is what actually brings me to borrow the book from the library.

Reading synopsis, first chapter, second chapter, I figured out that this is not the kind of book intended for computer guys. In fact, this is the book about living, how some sort of dying person wants to spread the way he living to humankind species =D. This is absolutely inspiring and you get the information from the first hand, not from someone who got PhD in psychology and wrote a book of motivation as if he knows everything about the life.

“The Last Lecture”, is indeed the last lecture Randy gave on September 2007 to almost 400 students at CMU. In the lecture he gave –‘Really achieving your childhood Dreams’, Randy made a point or two about the importance of overcoming obstacles, enabling the dreams of others, and seizing every moment.

“Because sometimes we don’t realize that time is actually finite” OK, I really don’t realize that. To know that everyone including me will eventually die is really terrifying. My young mindset always tells me like I will live forever.

I will give insights and comments about the book later on, because I do really in the mood to read the book on and on and just can’t pause.

Randy Pausch is indeed a famous person. You can see his profile here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch

Great person, isn’t he? You know what? I guess he already motivates me to pursue graduate degree in whatever. I miss the smell of books in library, the laboratories, the lectures, and the assignments. I know you may say I can’t be serious. But indeed, it’s true.