This REALLY puts life in a POSTIVE perspective!

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CambioElMundo

CambioElMundo

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Hey everyone!

As some of us still wait to be accepted, while others rejoice with acceptance, and still others have to deal with the disappointment of rejection, this is a phenomenal video that puts our life goals in perspective.

This man is a professor at Carnegie Mellon diagnosed with cancer, giving a lecture that became famous unintentionally because his students loved him so much it was put on the internet.

It is 150% worth your time!
Good luck to all! God Bless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
 
CambioElMundo said:
Hey everyone!

As some of us still wait to be accepted, while others rejoice with acceptance, and still others have to deal with the disappointment of rejection, this is a phenomenal video that puts our life goals in perspective.

This man is a professor at Carnegie Mellon diagnosed with cancer, giving a lecture that became famous unintentionally because his students loved him so much it was put on the internet.

It is 150% worth your time!
Good luck to all! God Bless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
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He made good sense! A lot of things he said apply to things that I'm going through right now with school and just life in general. Being grateful for the things you have now is so important....he made that very clear.
 
CambioElMundo said:
Hey everyone!

As some of us still wait to be accepted, while others rejoice with acceptance, and still others have to deal with the disappointment of rejection, this is a phenomenal video that puts our life goals in perspective.

This man is a professor at Carnegie Mellon diagnosed with cancer, giving a lecture that became famous unintentionally because his students loved him so much it was put on the internet.

It is 150% worth your time!
Good luck to all! God Bless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
Click to expand...

aww yea that web site is really great... makes me appreciate my life
 
Man, i saw this right after watching brett favre retire, ontop of receiving a rejection letter from pharmacy school, i can proudly say it got me emotional. Wonderful perspective on life, yet we dont realize it until we are going to die!!!
 
I saw this video last week. Although, OP didn't mention the name of the guy, I immediately know who he's talking about. WATCH IT, and learn from it. I love the "head fake" #2 at the end. It got me emotional.
 
Wow, thanks for posting that. Remember everyone, a rejection letter is a brick wall....how bad do you want it?
 
Even if you got rejected from everything you did in life, you are still better off than hundreds of millions of people in the world because you have the resources to go on SDN and waste time 🙂
 
CambioElMundo said:
Hey everyone!

As some of us still wait to be accepted, while others rejoice with acceptance, and still others have to deal with the disappointment of rejection, this is a phenomenal video that puts our life goals in perspective.

This man is a professor at Carnegie Mellon diagnosed with cancer, giving a lecture that became famous unintentionally because his students loved him so much it was put on the internet.

It is 150% worth your time!
Good luck to all! God Bless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
Click to expand...

Thanks for the video post and also thanks for straightening me out in the Creighton thread the other day. Good luck to you.
 
CambioElMundo said:
Hey everyone!

As some of us still wait to be accepted, while others rejoice with acceptance, and still others have to deal with the disappointment of rejection, this is a phenomenal video that puts our life goals in perspective.

This man is a professor at Carnegie Mellon diagnosed with cancer, giving a lecture that became famous unintentionally because his students loved him so much it was put on the internet.

It is 150% worth your time!
Good luck to all! God Bless!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
Click to expand...

Thank you for putting up this link. This was a very heart warming beautiful video of a strong and powerful message on how to live life. Your posting of this link is the BEST THREAD I HAVE SEEN IN SDN...

THANK YOU
 
I am glad that all of you are inspired by the message. I thought it was very appropriate for many of our situations, because while we sit thinking we might have to reapply next year to get into school, it took this man 15 years to actually achieve his dream. That is a long time. I think it is also important to remember the simple things like just being nice and being truthful!

If we think about this, "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, only how we play the hand," it is such a poignant quote. Many of us are stressing about theses applications, but after applying, they are out of our hands. What will be, will be; and, we must deal with the results in a positive way either way!

I wish all of you the best in your pharmacy endeavors, as I wait to hear back from the schools I have applied to this year.

On a side note: I was wish I was a pharmacist now because, I want to one day work in clinical pharmacy, specializing in oncology at a cancer institute that will research cures for brilliant men, such as this one, and the many people we all know that are affected. With all of the caring people on SDN and in the scientific field, I know there will soon be a cure for all mankind!
 
Thanks for giving us inspiration through this nerve-wracking time 😍

I'd just like to share some of Dr. Pausch's words that were really memorable and struck home for me:

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

"Brick walls are put there for a reason: to let us prove how much we really want something."

It doesn't matter what our outcomes are because at the very least we can still extract something positive, learn, and grow from it! Best wishes to everyone through the app process.
 
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