Years After She First ‘Met My People,’ Tina Fey Readies for Return to Grounds

Without ever having stepped foot on the University of Virginia’s Grounds before, Tina Fey nervously moved into Metcalf House, the dorm she would soon call home, in the fall of 1988. “I didn’t grow up in a world where people went on college tours,” Fey said. “You kind of looked at a paper catalog about colleges, and then you would try to get in somewhere.