I just loved the community, and I still
do. Like, you can't walk across campus and
not have someone say hi to you, whether
it be a professor or another student.
Hi, my name is Elise VerHey. I am a double
major in psychology and criminal justice
at the University of Sioux Falls.
I honestly love the professors so much.
Beth O'Toole and Mike Thompson are the
ones that I've had so far, and they just
have talked about criminal justice in a
way that just kind of excites a passion
for it, that just makes you excited to
come to class and excited to learn about
it. In the criminal justice program, I've
definitely learned real-life skills from
looking at actual crimes, and actual
cases, and learning how to look at them
critically and figure out what it's
going to be like when I'm actually in
the field. To me, to live fully engaged
would mean to be involved in campus, and
just all the different activities that
we offer here. For me, what happened was
that I decided I wanted to take a swing
at theater, and so I auditioned for a
play, and I actually got a part. And
during that I discovered a real passion
for theater, and led to me adding a
theater minor. I'm just excited about
what I'm learning about.
