Thanks for your answers. Oh Yeah, I pretty much described my whole profile, there's not a whole lot else important about my academic history. In a way I'm glad that UCB is out of my league, it means there are some really smart cats out there blazing new trails in computer science. I'll probably try either getting a PhD at a top 30 school or a Masters at a top 20 and see if I can't move up after that. In the end we're all part of the world wide computer science community, and that is a beautiful thing.