Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was delivered on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. Over 450 Carnegie Mellon students, staff members, and friends of Pausch attended the lecture, leaving only standing room as this was more than the auditorium could hold. Pausch later commented about this in an interview, saying "A couple of hundred people in a room, looking and listening and laughing and applauding – hopefully at the appropriate times – that gives a lot of validation to my kids that a lot of people believe in this, and a lot of people who knew me believe that I did my best to try to live this way." The first introduction of the speech as well as the series of lectures was given by Indira Nair, the Vice Provost for Education at Carnegie Mellon. Nair first explained the university's aforementioned lecture series called "Journeys", in which eight more professors from Carnegie Mellon would share their insights on their professional and personal experiences over the years.
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2013 also saw a panel discussion titled ‘Follow Your Dreams’ saw the confluence of four eminent stalwarts: Charu Sharma, Nitin Gupta, Dr. Madhu Mehta and Dr. Anil Kane that yielded a stimulating session with an innate aim of inspiring the students to aspire, act and achieve.
The 14th edition had an interplay titled ‘Screw it, Let's Do It' focusing on inspiring the students and motivating them to keep working towards achieving their goals. Apart from these, there were two guest lectures by Dr. Kiran Bedi and Mr. Hussain Zaidi that were the attractions of the event.