With just four weeks to go until our Higher Education & Access Graduation Ceremony, we're celebrating some of our graduates and where their journeys have taken them.
Former St Brigid's College student Aidan Lynch graduated from our HND Creative Media Production course in 2024 before progressing to study at Ulster University Magee.
Inspired by a passion for photography and filmmaking during lockdown, Aidan found more than just a course at NWRC.
"The best thing about studying at the college was the atmosphere. The lecturers were supportive, and the students shared the same passion. We became more like a family than a class."
Aidan now hopes to build a successful career in the media industry.
This is his story:
My name is Aidan Lynch, I am currently 23 years old, and I studied Creative Media Production at NWRC. Before NWRC, I was a student at St Brigid’s College.
I decided to enrol at NWRC because of my growing interest in film at the time. Throughout the first COVID lockdown, I had a lot of free time on my hands. I got into photography particularly related to birds and everything film-related kind of spiralled off of that.
I chose to study Media Production because of my growing interest in media as a whole. The thought of personal and professional creation really appealed to me, and still does.
I would have to say the best thing about studying at the college was the overall atmosphere. The lecturers were all polite and helpful in their own individual ways, the other students were easy to get along with because we all shared a similar passion, and that really helped all of us become more like a family than a class.
I would absolutely recommend studying locally. Not only was NWRC much cheaper than a lot of other competing options, it also meant I didn’t have to travel very far day in, day out.
Of course, challenges are always a part of the college experience. Productions pretty much never go completely to plan and sometimes, you may get stopped completely, but the point is, you step back, assess it from another angle and keep chipping away at it. Eventually, something will work out.
I would absolutely recommend NWRC for people coming from secondary school who don’t want to get into university right away, but do want some form of higher education.
After finishing my studies at NWRC, I then went on to study a degree in Ulster University Magee, which is just next door to NWRC.
My plans for the future are to hopefully enter the media industry, further build my hand-on experience and gain even more insight to the production process.
