<p>I recommend watching the recent last lecture of Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. It is inspirational and sprinkled with a good number of practical insights that can help with college and life in general. Sadly, the professor has terminal cancer with only a couple of months of "good" health left. But the talk and program are upbeat and fulfilling.</p>
<p>Professor Paush's talk is about 1 hour 20 minutes followed by another 20 minutes of other speakers, for a total program of about 1 hour 40 minutes. Although my patience is generally for only shorter programs, I would recommend listening to Randy Pausch's entire talk. Also, I found the following 20 minutes of talks interesting and worthwhile--it gives insight into how colleagues and a university might handle such a situation.</p>
<p>Currently the link can be found by going to the Carnegie Mellon website at <a href="http://www.cmu.edu%5B/url%5D">www.cmu.edu</a>. Or you could go to Google at: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en%5B/url%5D">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en</a> </p>
<p>I am putting this under "Parent Forum" and also "International Students". I am not putting it on the Carnegie Mellon part of College Confidential as I believe this talk is important for us in general rather than to just a particular school (although I believe Carnegie Mellon administration has handled this sad situation in an admirable way).</p>