One faculty member and three former undergraduate mentees discuss the development of their mentoring relationship. This paper is one description of how a mentoring relationship develops over time and how it benefits students, faculty and the university. Mentoring is not defined as how faculty impact students, but as an interdependent relationship, each person influencing, and being influenced by the other. The paper concludes by examining some of the systemic, institutional challenges that keep mentoring from happening and describes some future research that needs to be undertaken.