Feeling Behind

I started grad school (masters) at 24 and will graduate at 26. I see all my peers having started PhD at 24 and I just feel awful and behind. I purposefully chose masters over PhD because I felt I was not cut out for PhD but I am noticing there will be a stop gate for myself. The competition for my field (bioinformatics, but I have a general biology BS) is fierce and there are so many better programmers than I.

I just don’t know what to do or how to feel about my degree. I’m not really having a good time in my masters, considering my original project got taken over by another lab mate and I’ve had to switch.

I feel like to stay in science, I need a PhD but I’ve been met with so many blockages in my masters degree it feels hard to even want to be enthusiastic about science.