To be honest, the reason I want to do a PhD in this area is because I genuinely enjoy studying it and learning more about it. I don't even care too much about how much I get paid as long as I'm able to pay the bills. I've worked in 4 or 5 summer jobs over the past few years and I've done 8 months work experience in an engineering position as part of my undergrad and I just don't find it very fulfilling at all. Generally I don't feel happy unless I'm studying something in an area I'm interested in. So for that reason I've come to the decision that I want to do whatever I can to pursue a career in academia and make it work. Thanks for the input anyway.

Hey, so I have a BEng in Biomedical Engineering and my GPA was 2.87/4.0. I'm really gutted because my GPA was 3.1 going into my final semester of 4th year but I kind of found it hard to stay focused towards the end and didn't do myself justice in the final exams at all. Because of that, I have a high 2.2 degree instead of a 2.1 degree. With this alone, I know I have pretty much zero hope of landing a decent PhD. The area I want to go into is Evolutionary Biology (I decided this during my final year of engineering), so I am currently studying a taught MSc in Evolutionary Biology at a very decent college. My goal is to use this masters to get into a decent PhD in Evo Bio in a good college, but I'm really worried that my undergraduate GPA has fucked up my chances of ever getting that.  So my question is, if I get a decent masters GPA and and put in a good application for a PhD in a top college, will I have any hope of being accepted at all? Or has my undergrad GPA killed any chance of that every happening?