The best thing concering above opinions is, I totaly don't care about them; nor negative nor possitive. Otherwise I would have to be an average without ambitions, plans, new ideas what to do in near, mid and long term. I'm just doing my job. Mayby my english has few or more flaws Xavii, but there is big diffrence between me and you: with my average + TOEFL 96 pts + book + MA thesis, I won't have any problems getting to any Uni at UK or US for PhD contrary to you (if you have any ambition to achieve PhD lvl).