For those of you who don’t know, Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch passed away yesterday. His last lecture, entitled “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, has been viewed on YouTube over 4 million times since it was posted on December 20, 2007. Today alone, there have been over 500K views!

Randy Pausch gave his last lecture at the CMU on September 18th 2007, before a packed audience. In this moving presentation, Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

At 76 minutes in length, it’s a LONG video. But it’s one of the most profound things you’ll ever watch. Carve out some free time, and watch this presentation in it’s entirety. I hope you find it as moving as I did.