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Sherry Pineau, the Director of First Year Initiatives


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The Last Lecture
Randy Pauch's Homepage
The Last Lecture Discussion Questions/Book Guide
Download the audio book on Maine Infonet


"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

Join in the intellectual discussion of Thomas College's choice for the 2009 Common Read.

The Last Lecture is a based on Professor Pausch's lecture entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." The lecture, while really being terminally ill Randy Pausch's last is about overcoming obstacles and making the most about life. It is a lecture about living.

Click below to see a copy of the letter that accompanies the Writing Project for the Common Read selection:
 

The Last Lecture

By Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnegie Mellon with Jeffrey Zaslow

WRITING PROJECT
To be submitted by Friday, August 21st to:


Dr. Thomas Edwards
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Thomas College
180 West River Road
Waterville, ME 04901
Tel (207) 859-1362

For any questions please contact Sherry Pineau Brown at (207) 859-1209 or email her firstyeardir@thomas.edu