This is not my story - this is an incredible story about Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, and gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really...Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

I found this incredibly moving. You can see more on Randy's homepage here .

Here's Randy's day-to-day progress

Randy's book The Last Lecture just came out and is available on Amazon.

Link to his last lecture

What do you think about his retrospective?