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MIT lingo

F&A

Facilities and Administrative (Rate) — formerly the "indirect cost rate"

FAC

Freshman Advisory Council

FACT

Families Accessing Computer Technology

FAFSA

Free Application for Federal Student Aid

FAP

Forum on American Progress

F/ASIP

Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program

F.A.T.

Friday After Thanksgiving, an educational program sponsored by and at the MIT Museum

FBNML

Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory

FCLS

Faculty Committee on the Library System

FDP

Federal Demonstration Partnership

FDRL

Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory (Old name. See ACDL.)

FEE

Freshman Essay Evaluation

Fenway

Fenway House

FERC

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FERPA

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FFRDC

Federally Funded Research and Development Center

$50K

MIT''s $50K Entrepreneurship Competition

Fiji

Phi Gamma Delta (no longer exists at MIT)

FinBoard

(Undergraduate Association) Finance Board

5ESS

Institute's main telephone system

FIPG

Fraternity Insurance Purchasing Group

FIRE

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

FIRST

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, a non-profit organization established by inventor Dean Kamen

Fishbowl

A workstation cluster of Project Athena

FIXIT

Telephone number of Department of Facilities' Work Control Center

FJE

Festival Jazz Ensemble

Flame

To speak obnoxiously and/or at great length

FL&L

MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures

FLOWLAB

Laboratory for Ship and Platform Flows

FLP

Freshman Leadership Program

FNL

Faculty Newsletter

FO

Fiscal Officer

FPC

Faculty Policy Committee

FPOP

Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs

FRADS

Foundation Relations and Academic Development, Office of

FSEP

Faculty Student Exchange Program

FSILG

Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups

FSS

Financial Systems Services

FTE

Full-Time Equivalent

FTL

Flight Transportation Laboratory

FTO

Financial Technology Option, a certificate program for Ph.D. students in engineering and science

FRAP

Flexible Reimbursement Account Plan

FRC

Family Resource Center (old name). As of February 2002, it's called the MIT Center for Work, Family & Personal Life.

FRC

Financial Review and Control

FUP

Freshman Urban Program

FX

(The MIT Student) Furniture Exchange, run by the Women's League

FYE

(Enhancing the) First-Year Experience at MIT