What we learned, what we didn’t expect, and (most importantly) what we keep at our desks to survive as first-year PhD students. — At MIT, there’s an age-old adage about drinking from a fire-hose. That fire-hose is school, and research, and generally transitioning to a new home, all of which we choose to do because the institute has called our name. In hopes of easing future students’ transitions — to slow the flow…