NEWS
This is Keele’s legacy to me in 2064: amazing friendships that have transcended
our time at university. Being able to walk across campus and always see someone
you knew was something the real world lacked when I entered it after ‘the Bubble’.
The societies I was a part of still exist and they are thriving. The creative writing
society has grown in the influx of writing culture at Keele, and the anthology we
started here is still going strong. The Quidditch club has not just one team, but
many, each playing nationally and internationally – a sport that Keele helped
to found in the UK of has grown massively, and is finally taken seriously as a
legitimate sport. It’s even available on Sky Sports. And the AU has finally allowed
the society to join its membership scheme.
It’s fifty years on now, and I and all the Keele people I know are no longer as
young, innocent and naIve as when we started. Now we are older, wiser and
jealous of those just starting their Keele journey. But Keele makes us feel young
again. Keele makes us unstoppable. Keele still feels like home.
By Mel Piper (2014, English and Psychology, 2015 MA Creative Writing)
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