Today we attended a lecture by Randy Pausch entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy was one of the co-creators of the Entertainment Technology Center. Unfortunately, he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and only has a few months left to live. This was part of Carnegie Mellon's "last lecture" series, in which a professor is given one last lecture to reflect back on their experiences.
Randy has done a lot in his lifetime. He talked about all of his lifelong dreams and he achieved quite a few of them. He got to go up in the air with NASA, he was an Imagineer with Disney, and he established the ETC with Don Marinelli, among many other things. He has done so many great things with the short time that he has had.
He brought up a very valuable lesson too:
"It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you."
Unfortunately none of us were taught by Randy while he was at the ETC, but he has inspired us in so many ways. We are grateful for all the work that he has done for the ETC (and for the world in general), and we will miss him.
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