Posts from — December 2009

Moynihan '81 in a photo from Bank of America.

Brian Moynihan ’81 will start his tenure as the next Bank of America CEO Jan. 1, the bank announced Wednesday. His selection after a long search made difficult by the bank’s acceptance of federal bailout money, the AP reports:

The move “draws to a close what is probably the executive search from hell,” said Tony Plath, a finance professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. “They needed to find someone to end the drama so that the bank can get back to regular business, but at the same time I am surprised by their choice. You do have a young and untested CEO running a major commercial bank in the U.S.”

Moynihan said in a statement that he was honored to be chosen.

“What we need to do now is very simple,” Moynihan said in the statement, according to the AP. “We need to execute.”

Coming at just the right (or wrong?) time, BrownFML has magically appeared from on high to bring us procrastination, pathos and the kind of sweet schadenfreude that’ll have you laughing out loud in 00 Decibels (FYL!). Brought to us by the folks at CollegeFML — founded by Harvard freshman Jonah Varon — and inspired by the insanely popular (and already criticized) HarvardFML, the sparsely designed site already has hundreds of posts, and appears to be growing fast. The bulk of it is, predictably, finals-focused, but it appears this time of the year brings out the wittiest, pathetic-ist, truly FMLiest in us. For example: “Someone asked me today if I was “ready” and I told her that of course I was ready for chicken finger Friday. Turns out she was talking about an exam I didn’t know I had. FML” Or: “Today, I fell asleep in a final exam, and proceeded to fart SO LOUD it woke me up. FML” Or one that strikes searingly close to home: “I spent all my time at The Brown Daily Herald, but now journalism is dead. FML.”

Ouch.