Lecture

In Randy’s Pausch’s lecture “Achieving your Childhood Dream” he talks about brick walls, the cards we are dealt, having something to bring to the table, gaining experience, gratitude, the importance of having specific dreams. Pausch’s gives great advice on life and understanding how to grow from every experience we go through in life. Although Pausch’s had dealt with many short comings in his life, which included being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Randy Pausch referred to the obstacles we…

the lecture of Brown, by Kiristina Podesva, and the lecture about black, by Liz Lee and Jared Sexton. The relationship between colour is intersecting with each other. Black as the extreme of one spectrum of colour and brown as the unique form of colour being nowhere in the colour wheel. The relationship between brown and black is strange. For my own knowlege, when brown mix with blue, black is the result. Both lecture develop the meaning of the colour to a deeper level. However, both lecture…

As my field work at Carter Elementary comes to an end, I can honestly say that nothing better prepares you for working with children than doing just that. No matter how many hours I sit in UTSA’s lecture halls and classrooms, or study the socially just and proper way to respond to each situation, it will never be more beneficial that being in an actual kindergarten class for two hours a week. As we progressed in IDS 2013, I was eager to visit my students in Mrs. Ferguson’s class and witness what…

The faculty lecture that I watched at 8 p.m. on September 20th was presented by Kevin Burns. The lecture by Burns helps teach freshman students in W.P. Carey business school about the course of action needed in order to succeed in college and after graduation. Kevin Burns stresses the point that college students need to obtain a job at graduation or shortly after. This is because the longer graduates wait to find a job, the harder it will be to get one especially competing with part-time workers…

Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science and Virtual Reality creation at CMU, creatively delivers his speech titled, “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” He speaks to the audience in a very informal manner, making himself more approachable and easy to listen to. He introduces his three main speech topics in the beginning, His Childhood Dreams, Enabling the Dreams of Others, and Lessons Learned. His first main point, His Childhood Dreams, is one where he looks back…

I believe this book relates to this class because, like this class Mr. Pausch shows us that we can speak openly about death and work through any issues we may have related to it. For example, in his book he spoke about how his cancer diagnosis had given him the time to have important, open conversations with his wife that he would not have been able to have if he had died abruptly. He also spoke about how well she was coping and how she was doing due to having these open conversations. Like his…

South African politician, Nelson Mandela once said, “Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” Randy Pausch was a college professor, who unfortunately passed away from pancreatic cancer. Randy’s parents gave him a wonderful childhood, in return, he had a lot of success. An abundance of children today dream of having a childhood like Randy Pausch’s. When Randy was a child, he had freedoms that children today do not get to encounter. His parents would encourage him to paint on…

Can college lectures actually be discriminating against you? Well it might be, according to Anne Murphy Paul, if you are a not a white privileged male. In Paul’s article “Are College Lectures Unfair?” she discusses studies that have shown college lectures to be very biased towards a particular group of students such as, women, minorities, low-income, and first generation college students. Instead of a professor giving the typical structured lecture, he or she should try active learning; a style…

The second lecture in the Berges Lecture series was a presentation by John Heiser, President and Chief Operating Officer, Magnetrol International, Inc., discussing the idea that leadership is a journey and began his talk by reflecting on his on journey of leadership. John went to college to become a lawyer and after graduating from law school, began his career as a lawyer. After 10 years however, John had an intervention in which he ultimately decided that his current career path was not what he…

Last Lecture An Irish proverb states, “You cannot read a book without learning something”. This is true in many ways, especially in The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Randy Pausch was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer before he started writing his book.. The book is a collection of stories that the author wrote in order to teach the reader lessons that could help them in life. I learned things not only through his stories, but also through the way he reacted to his diagnoses and…