Brooke (Breinich) Bury
In only three years, Brooke (Breinich) Bury ’21 graduated as an accounting major. How’d she do it?
“It helps if you come in with credits,” she said, “but Messiah will give you a plan to work from if you want to graduate early. They’ll make that happen.”
In those three years, she also found time to play on the women’s basketball team. Time management proved to be key to her success.
“I remember going to a Sweet 16 game and taking an accounting final proctored by one of my coaches on the bus,” she said. “It comes down to personality. If you want to be diligent, you can.”
When she was searching for college, she was searching for three things: academics, a faith-based institution and athletics. She found all of those—along with a fourth.
“It’s a word that gets thrown around at Messiah all the time, but that’s community,” she said. “You find your people here, and it’s something you can’t find anywhere else. The people make the experience. The people here are fantastic.”
This month, she starts working as an audit associate at RKL, an accounting and business consulting firm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, her hometown.