First spend 6 years getting a PhD at a top-tier university. While you're there, publish awesome groundbreaking research. When you graduate and realize there's

First spend 6 years getting a PhD at a top-tier university. While you're there, publish awesome groundbreaking research. When you graduate and realize there's no jobs in academia, then you can crash at MSR for a year or two... assuming it even still exists by then. They closed the Silly Valley office this year and who knows what's next.