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.
Studentu paradīze
On 24 September 2010 "Student's Paradise" was attended by more than 11,000 students, which was a record in "Student's Paradise" history and other students' events in terms of the number of attendees! At the event 40 different artists performed from 7 countries all over the world on 9 stages. The host of the event was Māris Grigalis, and Dollarman (USA), GACHO, Musiqq, Aisha, Ēnas, Pienvedēja Piedzīvojumi, Seat Free, WILD, Droydi (Brazil), Gabbi Lopez (UK), Moses Malone (DK), Kaspars Zlidnis, and Dvīnes performed, as well as others. In the territory of "Arena Riga" were situated pools, where the Red Bull Bull Winch Session was located.