Remembering Randy Pausch

[aniline]

Randy Pausch died last Friday of pancreatic cancer. Like a lot of my friends have said, he wasn't always our most favorite professor and it took me a little while to appreciate what he really did for us. TBH, it wasn't until I actually started working in the games industry that I really fully appreciated everything I learned in BVW (Building Virtual Worlds). The technology was such a small part of what we got out of that class, everything else was learning about people. Out of everything I did at CMU, that class was by far the most challenging and most rewarding. I have so many anecdotes I wouldn't know where to start.

Daisy made a really cute drawing & probably summed up what I meant to say a little more eloquently. :D

Comments

[da1sy.livejournal.com]

aw, thanks...

speaking of anecdotes, remember the transformers story? (which seriously almost made me pee my pants back when it happened). Remember when there was that transformers world, and the two transformers lodged themselves in each other in that awkward position, and the world was spinning around them by mistake, and there was that weird porn-like music going on?. Man, that was awesome.

But anyways, I figured this anecdote was a. easier to draw, and b. was a world I actually worked on :)

[aniline.livejournal.com]

That's what I was gonna write about but I KNOW the humor doesn't translate. I also loved when we all got our anonymous evaluations from peers so we all sat on the lawn and read the funny ones out loud, or laughed off the critical ones while figuring out who wrote them. That was so fun.

Remember how in that transformers world there was also "pimpin' bumblebee" 'cause he was walking all broken and listing to the side lkasjdfasdfhahahahahaha, omg.

[ghost-girl.livejournal.com]

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can't stop laughing, man that was awesome. :D

[archas.livejournal.com]

Oh; huh! I hadn't really put the pieces together in my head to figure that you might have/probably did have him...But then, I only really know the guy from his bestselling book, and--given the subject matter (and the lack of VR headset with the book)--I had kind of assumed he was a lit. prof or something. Only just figured out he was CS like...yesterday.

A nice little remembrance, though; my favorite teachers, I think, have taught me more years after I had them than they did during my actual semester with them...

[stripey-girl.livejournal.com]

People here in Libraryland are going nuts over his book. He sounded like a wonderful person to learn from.