diff --git a/recipes_source/recipes/saving_and_loading_a_general_checkpoint.py b/recipes_source/recipes/saving_and_loading_a_general_checkpoint.py
index a31f43970f6..cc872ae8042 100644
--- a/recipes_source/recipes/saving_and_loading_a_general_checkpoint.py
+++ b/recipes_source/recipes/saving_and_loading_a_general_checkpoint.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ def forward(self, x):
 # 
 
 model = Net()
-optimizer = optim.SGD(net.parameters(), lr=0.001, momentum=0.9)
+optimizer = optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=0.001, momentum=0.9)
 
 checkpoint = torch.load(PATH)
 model.load_state_dict(checkpoint['model_state_dict'])