You seem to have gotten some advice already, but here's what I'd recommend:

- Use your fandom for inspiration. Most of the plots from OFUM were related to fanfic trends and stuff like that.
- Keep it funny or you run the risk of getting too much on a soap box.
- While OFUM is quite episodic in form, some long-term plots and arcs help make it feel more coherent. Don't be afraid to refer to past events and have some character development (especially for the main character).
- Don't try to cop OFUM too much. Seriously, I think the more successful OFUs are the ones who adapted the idea the most to their fandom. I tailored OFUM for LotR - don't just take elements of it and put it in your OFU. Adapt it as much as possible.

And good luck! (I play WoW, so extra luck in fact.)

I've never played WoW (the home Internet connection isn't even up to playing Zombie Lane), but I can help with any questions about college. My e-mail is LLWatts@juno.com.

I wish I could help out with this sort of thing, but I lack the time and the energy to devote to this.

I can offer advice or ideas if you need some. I am well versed in Warcraft Lore and I have five Warcraft characters that could lend a hand if you need them.

Also, I don't know if this is going to happen, but I saw mention of Hellscream and Wrynn inciting a war between the faction students. I figure, you could go further with that and just make those two the heads of their respective houses. What could possibly go wrong?

Also, someone needs to teach some basic geography and history. You would not believe how often I see fics that happen in areas that don't exist (a subcontinent Northwest of Quel'thalas? You mean the ocean!?) or in time periods that don't make sense.

-Phobos

I'm not totally up to date on Warcraft lore, but I know the basics. My email is at alixnyden@yahoo.com.

And I felt the same way when I started, and I didn't have the PPC community. So I had to do the research on my own (finding the PPC in the process). Still doing the research, in fact.
Some things I've figured out that might help:
-Read OFUs. I looked up every OFU I could find in fandoms I recognized. I've read both OFUM and HFA multiple times, and there were already some (abandoned) attempts at a Star Trek OFU so I read those too. Take inspiration from them.
-Read misscam's rules for writing OFUs. They're on her website.
-Come up with an overarching storyline. OFUM's is the Lina/Gimli relationship, HFA's was the Canonquake and the subsequent Sue invasion, etc. Come up with something relating to your fandom/fanbase. My overarching storyline has to do with the fact that fanfiction started in Star Trek.
-This cannot be stressed enough: keep it funny.
-Don't get hung up on details. I've never attended a university either; so I just modeled some of the scheduling on high school. Focusing on details makes it not funny.
-The crazier, the better. OOCness is acceptable to a certain extent. Look at Sauron in OFUM.

All I can think of right now, but if you need any help with OFU stuff (I don't know the fandom), I'll do whatever I can to help.

You can feel free to toss me an email (/points above) for any OFU-related questions.

Personally I like writing in actual lectures that correspond to problems I see in the fandom - like for example, the Sherlock fandom had a mild controversy over not tagging artwork for dub-con and stuff, and people started flaming each other, so I wrote a lecture where Irene Adler berated people for not tagging their porn. Just keep it relevant, informative, and overall FUNNY.

(I'm one to talk with the current arc of IAHF, really.)