Last week, I got to host Prof. dr. Christine Neuhold (the Dean of Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) for the Maastricht Young Academy’s Growing Up in Science event. She shared with us her story of resilience, finding joy in what she does, and much more. While there were many aspects to her story that I found inspiring (i.e. "color the cow green"), I was particularly moved by her idea, not to see our career in terms of a ladder for us to climb up or down, but as a river. Our career is not something linear. Instead, like a river, it weaves and flows, branching out at times and merging together at other points. Thank you again Christine for all your hard work as a Dean and for sharing your motivational words with us!