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Carnegie Mellon's Snapshots

  1. Oh dear...
  2. Killer Mouse
  3. Randy Stickers
  4. Secret Passage
  5. Chesapeake Bay
  6. If you...
  7. Disco

    Disco by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    "I wrote the words ‘Disco sucks!’ over my door. My mother thought that was vulgar. One day when I wasn’t looking, she quietly painted over the word ‘sucks.’ That was the only editing she ever did.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  8. Attic

    Attic by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “On the ceiling, Jack and I wrote the words ‘I’m trapped in the attic!’ We did the letters backwards, so it seemed as if we’d imprisoned someone up there and he was scratching out an S.O.S.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  9. Bob Hope

    Bob Hope by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    "Inside my Pandora’s box, I wrote the word ‘Hope.’“Jack saw that and couldn’t resist writing the word ‘Bob’ over ‘Hope.’"
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  10. Pandora's Box

    Pandora's Box by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “I always liked the story of Pandora’s box…I was always drawn to the story’s optimistic ending: Left at the bottom of the box was ‘hope.’"
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  11. Geometric Shapes

    Geometric Shapes by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

    “Given my limited artistic skills, I thought it was best if I sketched things out in basic geometric shapes.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  12. Quadratic Equation

    Quadratic Equation by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “In a quadratic equation, the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square. Always a nerd, I thought that was worth celebrating.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  13. Elevator

    Elevator by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “Jack and I painted a large silver elevator door... We lived in a ranch house – it was just one level - so I was doing a bit of fantasizing to image six floors.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  14. Chess

    Chess by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “Because I loved chess, Tammy painted chess pieces (she was the only one of us with any drawing talent).”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  15. Mirror

    Mirror by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “I painted Snow White’s mirror with the line: ‘Remember when I told you that you were the fairest? I lied!’”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5: “The Elevator in the Ranch House”

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  16. Rocket Ship

    Rocket Ship by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “Men first walked on the moon during the summer of 1969, when I was eight years old…I was at camp that summer, and after the lunar module landed, all of us were brought to the main farm house, where a television was set up.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 28: “Dream Big”

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  17. Submarine

    Submarine by Carnegie Mellon from the GigaPan Randy Pausch's Childhood Room by Carnegie Mellon University by Carnegie Mellon

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    “…I painted a submarine lurking in a body of water behind the bunk bed. I drew a periscope rising above the bedspread, in search of enemy ships.”
    The Last Lecture, Chapter 5, "The Elevator in the Ranch House"

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