Al Gore, who used to be the next president of the United States of America, gave the keynote speech at Carnegie Mellon University's 111th commencement ceremony. He recalled his own commencement ceremony of which he literally has no memory of whom gave the commencement address that day. He believed many of us who were listening to his speech will share the same experience years later, unless he successfully tricked us. I think he did that when he talked about the experience of stepping down as vice president of the United States of America and allegedly, of opening a low-cost family restaurant.

A true surprise, however, was that Professor Randy Pausch returned to give the Charge to the Graduates. I felt fully charged by his short but passionate speech. He later gave another short speech at the SCS diploma ceremony, during which I also received the reputedly large diploma.

Interestingly, I just finished reading the book "The Last Lecture" a couple days ago. The book was then wrapped and shipped as a birthday gift. I could not help but think that it's a week that I immersed myself in Pauschisms.