Regan Hershey ’18
“If you’d told me I’d be graduating with a degree in accounting and be way more into music than athletics, I’d be like, ‘Yeah right.’ And that’s how it turns out, in a good way.”
Regan Hershey ’18 transformed during his four years at Messiah—spiritually and academically, day by day. Entering campus as an international business major, he thought he had everything figured out. He played on the baseball team, traveling with AROMA to do missions work in Panama.
Then, he became interested in the Powerhouse House Band and the larger worship community at Messiah. That’s when he realized there are only so many hours in a day.
“I could either do baseball and nothing,” he decided, “or do all these other things and pursue some things with music and the Student Activities Board.”
By his sophomore year, he had changed his major to accounting. Soon, he was serving as the SAB concert executive and as the president of Powerhouse.
He then spent a summer traveling to 13 countries—including China, India, and Russia, just to name a few—with the International Business Institute.
“One thing I noticed that was significantly different was the time spent on meals,” he said. “We would spend hours eating, sitting and talking. For the first week or two, that was odd for us. The one night in the Czech Republic, we spent four hours at the dinner table. Order an appetizer, eat it, sit and talk, order a main course, eat it, have dessert, sit, sit, order coffee, sit. Very relaxed.”
During his senior year, he began interning for Ernst & Young in Baltimore, Maryland. The company soon offered him a full-time job, which he began after graduation.
As he makes his way in the world as a new grad embarking on his career, he’s pondering the age-old dilemma of money vs. time.
“How much more important is money versus that extra time to volunteer to coach a baseball team?” he asked himself. “It’s something that I have wrestled with and will continue to wrestle with as those opportunities begin to present themselves.”