1. Where is the RSI website?
2. Where's a good place to research my mentor?
3. What is the address/zip code at Simmons?
4. How do I dial into MIT?
5. Is there a FAX machine I can use somewhere?
The website is located at http://web.mit.edu/rsi/www/
2. Where's a good place to research my mentor?
In general, a good place to start is to search for
your mentor's name at their Institution. For MIT mentors, for example,
you can run a search on MIT's home page at
web.mit.edu. Other institutions
include:
Harvard University:
www.harvard.edu
Harvard Medical
School:
www.hms.harvard.edu
Boston
University: www.bu.edu
Boston
College: www.bc.edu
You can also attempt to search or find the department that your mentor is affiliated with. Also, general-interest searches for your mentor's name on search engines like Google may produce references or articles that your mentor has written.
Finally, you can use the MIT Libraries to hunt for articles and references about your mentor. Their Vera system includes links and searches on over 500 professional and scientific journals, and Web Of Science is a similar database.
3. What is the address/zip code at Simmons?
Your Name
c/o RSI, Simmons Hall
229 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
MIT phone internal numbers are five-digit extensions.
Use the following table to convert the five-digit extension to a phone
number usable from the outside world.
| MIT extension | Full phone number |
| 5-xxxx | 617-225-xxxx |
| 3-xxxx | 617-253-xxxx |
| 2-1xxx | 617-252-1xxx |
| 2-2xxx | 617-452-2xxx |
| 2-3xxx | 617-452-3xxx |
| 2-4xxx | 617-452-4xxx |
| 2-5xxx | 617-452-5xxx |
| 4-xxxx | 617-324-xxxx |
| 7-xxxx | 617-577-xxxx |
5. Is there a FAX machine I can use somewhere?
There's one in the lobby of the student center, but
it's expensive.
There's one in CopyTech in the student center.
There's one in the Science Library, but it's expensive.