Writing in role: Chadwick Meade


One day, my time spent doing a levels will be over, and I know I'll look back on it thinking how irrelevant they are. All I need to do is get into the university of my choice, study maths, go and get a job engineering somewhere, work out how to stop the world destroying itself. I don't need to be friends with anyone here, after all I'm only here another few months, not that anyone here is particularly nice. I don't get how they can all be so laid back, with their parents paying their fees, I would kill to have the money they have, to be able to have had the level of education since infant years. I'm here because of my hard work and grades, this scholarship was gifted to me and I have to make sure I use it in the best way I can and if that means staying away from the vile students here, so be it, all they do is hinder me, abuse me, insult me. I don't need that, I can assure you that there are far larger, more pressing issues to worry about in this world than whether people like you or not. The general direction of how our planet is going is what concerns me most, how our own species will destroy itself, and how much of a waste of intelligence and resources our extinction will be. I sometimes wonder if other species on different planets can see what we are doing to the Earth, how we struggle to live in harmony. I wonder if they look at us in disgust, and shame, thinking how stupid and ungrateful we are. This is how I see the others at this school, how they could get the grades and live happy lives... but they wont, and its too late now.