University of Prince Edward Island

(also known as UPEI)

The University of Prince Edward Island is a very small university in the relatively small capital (Charlottetown) of a very small province Canada has to Time Magazine), it's the third-worst university in all of Canada.

But Fruvous liked it there. The smallness of the university, and its general undersirability, meant that there was generally two varieties of professor there : The young ones, who somehow got sent there much like the doctor got sent to Cicely in Northern Exposure, and the older ones who had wound up at UPEI and found that they liked it there, and wanted to be there. Nowhere to be seen were the ambitious back-biting professorial politics so injurious to the proper educational rapport. (Note : the previous sentence received an honorable mention in the Most Pretentious Sentence competition of 1995. the winners would have been linked to, but there's just so much disk space alotted for these things. )

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