While doing my masters at CMU in robotics, the ideal grades, as proclaimed by the professors, were straight B-. It meant you were actually doing your important

While doing my masters at CMU in robotics, the ideal grades, as proclaimed by the professors, were straight B-. It meant you were actually doing your important your, your research, while still passing. Research is what will get you into grad school. A big project is what could spinoff into a company, or at least teach you how to build big/real systems.