The last lecture- English one test⏳ – Flashcards
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What was the last lecture series in the Carnegie Mellon renamed to
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Journeys
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Had pancreatic cancer but was optimistic about it, The narrator
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Randy pauch
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Pov of last lecure
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First person
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Narrators wife
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jai
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Why didn't Randy pausch back out of his lecture after getting bad news that he would live only a few monthes
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He wanted to have a real last lecture
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Where did Randy's family move from so that after Randy's death Jay and the kids could be near family
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From Pittsburgh to southeastern virginia
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Why doesn't Jai like the idea of Randy's last lecture
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She wants him to spend his last few minutes w kids
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How old are Randy's kids at the beginning of book
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5,2, and 1
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Randy's kids names
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Dylan, Logan, and Chloe
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What did Randy not want the lecture to focus on
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His cancer
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How old is Randy
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46
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Randy's job
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Teacher and computer scientist
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What did Randy want to call the lecture
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Really achieving your childhood dreams
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While preparing for his lecture what would Randy do every 90 minutes
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Go play with kids
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What did Randy make it to remind him of what to say
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A PowerPoint
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What day did Randy leave for Pittsburgh
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Jays 41st birthday ,September 17
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When did they celebrate Jay's birthday
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The day before
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Flew in from San Francisco, friends with Randy, executive at a video game company
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Steve Seabolt
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Who told Randy that he had too many slides and how many did he have
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Steve Seabolt, 280
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Did Randy keep his hair through chemo
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Yes
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How many people showed up for Randy's lecture
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400
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What did Randy think the audience was wondering
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-is that his real hair? -could you sense how close to death he is?
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How many tumors does Randy have
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10
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What did Randy wear to his last lecture
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Short sleeve polo with a Disney worker logo and name tag from Disney
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Tough, old-school English teacher
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Randy's mom
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World War II medic, rent a small business for auto insurance, founded a charity to teach immigrant kids English, great storyteller and woodworker
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Randy's Dad
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Where did Randy grow up
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Columbia Maryland
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Where did Randy's parents tell him to find the answers
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A dictionary
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How much older than Randy is his sister Tammy
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Two years
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What denomination was Randy's family
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Presbyterian
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How did Randy's dad die
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Got leukemia at age 83
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Where did Randy's dad donate his body
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Medical science
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Who helped Randy paint his room
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Hey sister Tammie and friend Jack
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What did Randy paint on his walls
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Quadratic formula, elevator door, rocket, snow white mirror, person trapped in an attic, chess pieces, submarine, Spira scape, Pandora's box, words hope Bob and disco sucks
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What did Randy's mother paint over in his room
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The word sucks
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What kind of house did Randy live in
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one-story ranch house
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Randy dream
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To float
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What sport did Randy love and what age did he start at
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Football,9
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What did Coach Graham teach in football and what did he do when he was mad once
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Fundamentals, once dumped out bucket of water
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What did Randy love to read
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World book encyclopedia
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What year was Randy born
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1960
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Why did Randy want to be Captain Kirk from Star Trek
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He had leadership
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What did the guy from Star Trek send Randy after learning of his disgnosis
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A signed pic
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What did Randy do with all of her stuffed animals he had won
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Gave them away at one of his lectures
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What did a student with cancer get and how is it symbolism
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The elephant, symbolized elephant in room
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What year did Randy's CT scans first show cancer
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2006
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What did Randy work as for 6 monthes and write a paper about
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Disney imagineering
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What type of cancer does he have
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Pancreatic
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August 15,2007 what did they see
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10 tumours
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What is whipped operation
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Removed pancreas, stomach, and small intestine
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VP of Carnegie Mellon, inspired by how happy she saw Randy in a convertible even when he's close to dying
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Robbee kosak
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2 rules for kids
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1. No whining 2. Don't tell mom whatever we do
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What did Chris ask his niece and nephew to do after he dies
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Take his kids to do stuff on the weekends
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How old was he when he met jai and how old was she
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He was 37, she was 31
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How did he meet jai
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She was his host at UNC
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What did jai think of Randy at first
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He was gay
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Where did Randy and jai first go
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Wine bar
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Where did jai and Randy marry
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Under oak tree at mansion in Pittsburgh
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How did Jay and Randy leave the reception of their wedding
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By hot air balloon
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How did the hot air balloon thing end
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They crash landed in a field
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What was wrong w jai while she was preggo w dylan
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Placenta abrupta
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When did jai have the emergency while she was pregnant
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New Year's Eve 2001
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2 things they told Randy and jai after emergency c section
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1. Dylan will have unique med needs 2. They have millions of babies like this here
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What was Randy's dad awarded at 22
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Bronze star
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Why was Randy worried when Dylan cried on his bday at the movie mr magoriums wonder emporium
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Bc he hasn't told Dylan about his cancer yet
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How did Randy get out of a ticket
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Tells cop he is dying and shows him scars
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22 when he met Randy, wanted a job on research team, child dream was to work on the next Star Wars film
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Tommy Burnett
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How many Star Wars films did Tommy end up working on
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Three
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Randy's mentor at brown, "Dutch uncle," told Randy to apply at cm and be a professer
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Andy VanDam
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Software tool Randy helped develop
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Alice
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Where was Randy when men first walked on the Moon and why couldn't he watch it
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Camp, it was past 11 so he had to go to sleep
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What did Randy's dad do with a picture of the TV of men walking on the moon
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Scrapbook
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Randy will take a ________ person over a _____ person
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Earnest over hip
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Randy's mother referred to him as
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Randolph
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Where was Randy's mom raised
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Small dairy farm in virginia
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How did Randy's mom address him in letters
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R. pausch
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What did Randy do with letters addressed to Randolph
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Sent them back unopened
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Randy's college landlord, optimistic, hit by a truck when younger while unloading boxes, quadreplegic, great athlete, told her fiancé she could back out if she wanted to so she did, marriage counselor, married with adopted children
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Sandy Blatt
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Randy's favorite non-complainer
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Jackie Robinson
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What cheesy thing does Randy love
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Cliches
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What movie does Randy love
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Rocky
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What was the first penguin award for, and why is it called that
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A team who took the biggest risk and failed in the virtual reality project , called that bc penguins dive into unknown water
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B+ students who do what are A students in people's eyes
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Write thank you notes
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Had all A's except for an F in calculus, was so busy he has stopped Going to calculus, will help continue Alice
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Dennis Cosgrove
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Two words of advice from randy
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Work hard
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What did Randy get a year early
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His tenure from university of virginia
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When Randy got his tenure what did he do for his 15 people team
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Took them to disney
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What does an academic reviewer do
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Send papers to other professors and ask them to read and review them
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When Randy was an academic reviewer what would he give for if they finished reviewing
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Thin mints
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How much does Randy have at least in his wallet
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$200
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Man who's projector broke during presentation and he had an extra bulb , became top executive at macro media
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Norman meyrowitz
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The three parts of proper apologies
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1. What I did was wrong 2. I feel badly that I hurt you 3. How do I make this better
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If Randy could give 3 or 6 words of advice it would be
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Tell the truth all the time
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Why does Randy like Disney employees
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They replaced the salt and pepper shaker that him and his sister bought and broke
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When Randy didn't get in Carnegie Mellon what did Andy do
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Got him a meeting next morning st 8
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Leader of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, dutch
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Nico Habermann
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Perks of Randy's dad getting older kids to ump for a younger kids
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1. Older Kids who did it saw how hard it was and barely argued w umps again 2. Kids had big kid influences
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All you have to do is
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Ask
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Randy asked for a meeting with him, big computer scientist at UNC
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Fred brooks jr
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Last Halloween dressed as
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Incredibles
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Randy doesn't want to let go of _____ and become _______
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Tigger, eeyore
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Why does Randy cry
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He thinks about kids not having a dad
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Curious, analytical, loving, 6
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Dylan
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Adventurous, stuck in birth canal and born, energetic, three, "Tigger"
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Logan
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Dainty, three months, careful
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Chloe
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What did the audience do for Jay
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Sing happy birthday because it's the day before her birthday
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What does Randy want most of all
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J to be happy
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How old is Randy while doing his lecture
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47
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What did Jay get Randy for his birthday
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A TV and watch
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What did jai whisper to Randy as the crowd sings
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"Please don't die"
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What is Randy's last slide
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Him and the kids
