Glossary - F

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• F&A — Facilities and Administrative (Rate) — formerly the "indirect cost rate"
• FACT — Families Accessing Computer Technology
• FAFSA — Free Application for Federal Student Aid
• FAP — Forum on American Progress
• FASIP — First Year/Alumni Summer Internship Program
• FAT — Friday After Thanksgiving, an educational program sponsored by and at the MIT Museum
• FBML — Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
• FCLS — Faculty Committee on the Library System
• FDP — Federal Demonstration Partnership
• FDRL — Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory (Old; see ACDL.
• Federation — An association of organizations that use a common set of attributes, practices and policies to exchange information about their users and resources in order to enable collaborations and transactions.
• FEE — First-year Essay Evaluation
• Fenway — Fenway House
• FERC — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• FERPA — Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
• FFRDC — Federally Funded Research and Development Center
• Fiji — Phi Gamma Delta fraternity (no longer exists at MIT)
• FinBoard — (Undergraduate Association) Finance Board
• 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: 617-253-4948 (617-25-FIXIT). This number should be used for all emergency requests.
• FJE — Festival Jazz Ensemble
• FL&L — Foreign Languages and Literature
• FLOWLAB — Laboratory for Ship and Platform Flows
• FLP — First-year Leadership Program
• FNL — Faculty Newsletter
• FO — Fiscal Officer
• FPC — Faculty Policy Committee
• FPOP — First-year Pre-Orientation Programs
• FRAD — Foundation Relations and Academic Development, Office of (also known as Office of Foundation Relations)
• FRAP — Flexible Reimbursement Account Plan
• FRC — Financial Review and Control
• FRC (old) — Family Resource Center. Now called the MIT Work-Life Center.
• 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
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol.
• FUP — First-year Urban Program
• FX — (The MIT Student) Furniture Exchange, run by the Women's League
• FYE — (Enhancing the) First-Year Experience at MIT
• GAPSFAS — Graduate and Professional Schools Financial Aid Service (form)