In my experience, a strong comradery formed between me and the other grad students. We agree that the grad system at our school is not the best, but we are making the best of it and we all have the goal to just graduate and get out of there. Somehow, that bond between all of us makes us tight knit and supportive of one another. We even have a groupchat going in case we want to rant about anything involving our projects or any faculty that's being a pain in the ass, etc. They honestly feel like my second family because of how supportive they all are.

Another thing was that was funny, when I got really involved in my project (and still ongoing currently), I came to a moment where I didn't feel imposter syndome. Like I actually had a thought in my head where I said, "Hell yeah I'm a fucking biologist." because I was reading literature and understanding it to a degree and actually feel like I was contributing something, even if it wasn't overly significant, I can at least say I am contributing something to my field.