AIU / CTU are ripping off students, burdening them with tens of thousands of dollars of debt they don't complete. They are ripping off the taxpayer by fraudulently obtaining millions in Department of Education and Veterans' Affairs funds. And they are submitting employees who just want to do a good job to toxic working conditions and a high-pressure sales environment.
Don't let them get away with it! Let's gather enough information to help states attorneys stop this scam.
Stay away from this scam. I completed AIUs BBA degree plan and completed it shortly before I retired from the US Coast Guard. I thought along with my 30 years of experience a degree would give me a better chance of getting a good civilian job, wrong!!!!! I soon found out no employers looked on the AIU degree as a real one. I decided to go back to school and get an MBA, and after applying at no less than 5 colleges/universities if found that not one of my AIU credits transferred. So I had to start all over. I now have several MS degrees as well as an MBA in project management. All I ended up with as far as AIU goes in 3 wasted years of time and over $25k in student loan debt. I should have known better, with AIUs high pressure sales tactics to take loans out and constant calls but I did not think about it. Also AIU outright lied about it's programs graduation employment numbers, salary stats as well as their so called after graduation employment help IE resume writing help and so on. I also should have been concerned about the grades I got in classes I was a well below average student in high school and did in fact drop out in my senior year, yet even with no experience in the business field I was getting all A's in classes and ended up with a 3.98gpa. I saved all papers I wrote during my AIU classes and looking at them now, IMO they would get a C in high school at best. I bet thinking back now if I would have submitted a drawing of a happy face as an assignment it would have received an A as well. Do yourselves a favor people, stay away from AIU.
I went to AIU and received my Bachelors and Masters in Healthcare Management, neither is recognized in the real world. When I go on interviews I am laughed at because the degrees are useless. They pressured me and calculated in fact overcharged me for the classes, they made the classes more than what they should have been in order to get money on my behest for their school. I am now almost $200,000.00 in debt, and at the beginning I was told that I would only be paying under $30,000.00.
They did not help me at all with job placement or even leads for a job and when they did it was for manager a restaurants. Low level jobs paying poverty line pay. Someone needs to do something! If there is a lawsuit I want to be included I can not afford to even buy a car because of this and my credit score constantly going down. Noone wants to loan to a person that has $200,000.00 of debt already hanging over their head.
Those of us who have been ripped off need help NOW!
Like you I was scammed by AIU. In short, Stay away from this scam. I completed AIUs BBA degree plan and completed it shortly before I retired from the US Coast Guard. I thought along with my 30 years of experience a degree would give me a better chance of getting a good civilian job, wrong!!!!! I soon found out no employers looked on the AIU degree as a real one. I decided to go back to school and get an MBA, and after applying at no less than 5 colleges/universities if found that not one of my AIU credits transferred. So I had to start all over. I now have several MS degrees as well as an MBA in project management. All I ended up with as far as AIU goes in 3 wasted years of time and over $25k in student loan debt. I should have known better, with AIUs high pressure sales tactics to take loans out and constant calls but I did not think about it. Also AIU outright lied about it's programs graduation employment numbers, salary stats as well as their so called after graduation employment help IE resume writing help and so on. I also should have been concerned about the grades I got in classes I was a well below average student in high school and did in fact drop out in my senior year, yet even with no experience in the business field I was getting all A's in classes and ended up with a 3.98gpa. I saved all papers I wrote during my AIU classes and looking at them now, IMO they would get a C in high school at best. I bet thinking back now if I would have submitted a drawing of a happy face as an assignment it would have received an A as well. Do yourselves a favor people, stay away from AIU.
I called by them by accdient at 10-pm, within five days,my School Student Portal Virtual Campus had an error, I think one of them is behind it, as they permanently banned me from the school's website, I can't view nothing on there, except on my Mobile app of the school.
If you plan on being at student at American Intercontinental University always get a more open-minded Admissions Counselor and Academic Adviser and Financial Aid Adviser, because some of the staff working at the school are as follows: "Hypersensitive," and they don't like it when you disagree with them or call them on the daily.
They detest, they will be at home plotting their revenge to make sure, you break and decide you want nothng to do with the school. Stand up to them, by remaining in attendance and staying with the school, but don't talk to them everyday, they get really moody about it. As for the school's website, stick with the mobile.
In 2009 I decided to go back to school. Being a basically single mother of 3 boys (and in a abusive relationship), I enrolled in AIU. I knew that I was already working full time and being a full time mother but I really wanted to be back in school. So I called up my AIU advisor and informed them of my entire situation and told them of my fear of flunking out for taking on too much at once. My advisor assured me that if it ever became too much I had all kinds of options. So I made it about 4 months and i saw I was barely making my assignments so I went back to my advisor and asked what I could do to lighten my load. At this time the advisor no longer sounded like I would be ok... they told me that there was ways for me to contact my teacher and there were sessions each week where the teacher broke down the assignments.... I informed him that that wasn't my issue, I reminded him of my concerns before enrolling and reminded him that he assured me if I was overwhelmed that they had other options for how my classes were set up.... He remember none of this and now here I am 9 years later 18,000 in debt and no degree.... I wanted to go back to school but being a single mother of 3 boys doesn't really allow me to pay the 345.00 a month payment plan they offered me
I requested general information about an online program and made a one time inquiry about program costs while reviewing other institutional plans. I thanked AIU for the information and told them that I was not interested and had no plans to enroll or attend, but their executive admissions staff stalked me and hounded me for more than two years. I requested that they stop all efforts to contact me by phone, email, mail, and texts, but various staff members engaged in unprofessional aggresive predatory marketing and relentlessly stalked me through abuses of No Call List and No Spam Act violations. I repeatedly demanded that they permanently remove my contact information, but they resorted to having more individuals harass me with unsolicited contacts and even forwarded generic marketing materials under other fake student names in direct violation of a documented Better Business Bureau and Consumer Affairs complaint. I have been forced to file formal complaints with area law enforcement, the FTC, and Higher Learning Commission in an attempt to challenge the organization's accredidation.
Had individuals behaved in a similar manner on the dating scene, they would be hauled off to prison for aggrivated criminal stalking and disorderly conduct; I expect the same for businesses and their employees/agents. I told area law enforcement that I need a protective restraining order to be served on this organization and its members, because I do not appreciate a business being able to continuously harass me despite clear demands to be left alone. I was never a student, never enrolled in their program, and never had any student loans or educational debt of any kind. I owe them no money.
Complaints sent to AIU's so-called regulatory operations Ombuds contact Daniel Sessions via [email protected] were rejected as undeliverable.
AIU is now emailing me satisfacion surveys! WTF? What part of do not contact me again do you not understand?
I am the victim of a fraudulent online school and possibly negligence by my lender/servicer ACS. I signed up with AIU in May of 2006. I contracted to pay a monthly tuition of $200.00. Six months later my tuition was increased to $350.00 a month and six months after that it was increased to $550.00. I could no longer afford to continue my schooling. The tuition was too high. I had paid them $3,255.78 in a period of twelve months. The school kicked me out of the course. I found that the school was taking unauthorized funds from my Stafford Loan and not advising me per the law. I contacted the Department of Education and was advised that the school must also inform the student of his or her right to cancel all or a portion of the loan. In reviewing all my records, I can find no record of the school complying with these laws. When I confronted the school with the above facts they manufactured bogus emails telling me of deductions. They were sent to an unknown (by me) email address and a wrong home address. Knowing the above facts, I would have opted out immediately and saved myself a lot of grief. I never completed ONE course, paid them $3,255.78 and now have a student loan debt of $24,690.73.
I attended AIU University online and was informed at the beginning doing enrollment that I only had enough to just finish my master courses. I come to find out that was misleading and incorrect information. When a student enrolled in college it is up to them to decide what amount of money they want or request for attending each semester specifically and that the payback money would be a requirement of the student to decide not the college. I fell, however; I felt AIU decided for me which was misleading and unacceptable. This has caused a financial hardship for me. I was promised a job in my field is what I was told on before and upon completion of my study degree that didn't happen either that was misleading and untrustworthy.
I was a student on American InterContinental University from April 25, 2016 to May 02, 2017. I completed my Associates on Criminal Justice. I utilize my GI Bill benefits, which VA covers 100% my tuition. In addition I receibed some payments from the Yellow Ribbon Program. Qualified for FAFSA, and for that reason AIU is saying that I have a debt with them. According to them they can not hold on to additional funds in the account and now that I am done with school they are charging me for a balance from June 21, 2016. Eventhough the records show that I had no balance up to October 25, 2016. I have called two times and sent an email and all they answered was that they could not hold the funds and I was still have a balance, so now I have to pay that balance on top of an online graduation fee.
Do not attend this online school!! All they want is your money and give you nothing in return but a piece of paper with "degree" written on it. This is the fakest online university ever created! They send you dozens of brochures, promises of employement and leave you hundreds of voice messages. Instead of helping you find employement, they offer you more classes and more degrees which cost MORE MONEY!! Don't fall for it ! Your transcripts DO NOT transfer, your degree means nothing and you"ll owe them your entire life in student loans, even for classes that don't apply to your chosen field. When they cannot get enough money out of you, they will ask your Parents to borrow for you and will not disclose the full amount they will actually end up owing! Don't let them fool you into attending this school as an attempt to further your education. Don't get DOOPED. STAY AWAY! Everything about them is FALSE.
I urge anyone seeking ro have their student loan forgiven from this ubsurd university to please go to: studentaid.ed.gov/borrower-defense Fill out the online application and submit it right there! They will review your case and possibly decide to have your debt fully forgiven or even partially forgiven. Anything is worth a shot to get out of this nightmare. If anyone is seeking a class action lawsuit, please count me in!
A.I.U. has no place in the world where young people fall into false hopes by this parasitic jerks i spoke to a representative over the phone and specificly told them if i continue would i be able to withdraw with no affect to my financial aid and i give the lord almighty thanks that i dident complete my financial aid they would of ripped me off i spoke to there representative and told him if i dident want to continue chould i leave he said yes i was only 2weeks into the school i withdrew and now i have this debt lingering RUINED MY CREDIT! !!!!! I dont have money to give for free can some one help stop our young generation from getting into debt by these parasitic jerks !!!
I signed up for American Intercontinental University when I was 17. It seemed like a good option for me living in Hawaii and feeling the pressure to get a college education. I signed up for business classes and was told that I needed a consigner and my mother agreed. I was told the loan would be in my name and she was just consigning. They ended up putting the entire thing in her name. I struggled with requirements for "group projects" because of my time difference in Hawaii. My student advisors changed weekly and I came across one that encouraged me to purposely fail classes I wasn't getting A's in so I could retake them for a better grade, even though I was passing. I was told I wouldn't be charged for this. As a perfectionist I did it with multiple classes aiming to get perfect grades. I was charged $2,500 each time I did that. When I started realizing what a joke the school was and that they were lying to me about almost everything I stopped taking classes. I am now 30 and just finished paying off my nearly $20k in debt a few years ago. I got nothing from this and am very upset they take advantage of young gullible people. Even though it's paid I've never let my grief and disgust with the company go and doing more research I see that there are so many others that were taken advantage of as well. I would love to be part of a class action lawsuit!
I enrolled with the school back in August and started my schooling for my bachelor's degree for health care management on August 22nd and I done everything that I needed to do and I got awarded my Fasfa and for Stafford loans and they withdrew me from their online school and they will not give me my loan money that was awarded to me. I have emailed them multiple times about wanting my money that I am now in debt for.
I am also interested in forming a class action lawsuit. The school informed me that some of my financial aid would not have to be paid back. They did not give thorough information on financial aid and could not answer questions about financial aid. They skewed the numbers so I would receive more financial aid than needed.
In addition, they indicated that they would help you find a job. They did not help very much. Moreover, the jobs that they did find were entry level and not for someone with experience. They were at poverty levels.
They attempted to try to get me to take more classes, but I refused.
AIU mislead me since the beginning. AIU told me I will earn my education paid by a program created by president Obama. This will consist in the government pay for single mother's education if they are head of household. After four years of graduate I received a bill for $54,000.00 in federal debt for student loan. AIU never fulfilled their promises of helping me to find a job. I was never able to work on the field I graduated. Now I am in a bid debt at my 60 years old and not having a job.
This university is a rip off and take advantage of all funds. Im still paying for this school since 2007 and could not get accreditation for none of my course work. They would not even send transcripts. Im trying to find out how they can eat this bill so I can start over with an accredited school. They sell lies and the banks maybe in on it. We will find out soon. Im going to the media for further investigation. Hope all will join me.
American InterContinental University Reviews
AIU / CTU are ripping off students, burdening them with tens of thousands of dollars of debt they don't complete. They are ripping off the taxpayer by fraudulently obtaining millions in Department of Education and Veterans' Affairs funds. And they are submitting employees who just want to do a good job to toxic working conditions and a high-pressure sales environment.
Don't let them get away with it! Let's gather enough information to help states attorneys stop this scam.
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AIU is a scam
Stay away from this scam. I completed AIUs BBA degree plan and completed it shortly before I retired from the US Coast Guard. I thought along with my 30 years of experience a degree would give me a better chance of getting a good civilian job, wrong!!!!! I soon found out no employers looked on the AIU degree as a real one. I decided to go back to school and get an MBA, and after applying at no less than 5 colleges/universities if found that not one of my AIU credits transferred. So I had to start all over. I now have several MS degrees as well as an MBA in project management. All I ended up with as far as AIU goes in 3 wasted years of time and over $25k in student loan debt. I should have known better, with AIUs high pressure sales tactics to take loans out and constant calls but I did not think about it. Also AIU outright lied about it's programs graduation employment numbers, salary stats as well as their so called after graduation employment help IE resume writing help and so on. I also should have been concerned about the grades I got in classes I was a well below average student in high school and did in fact drop out in my senior year, yet even with no experience in the business field I was getting all A's in classes and ended up with a 3.98gpa. I saved all papers I wrote during my AIU classes and looking at them now, IMO they would get a C in high school at best. I bet thinking back now if I would have submitted a drawing of a happy face as an assignment it would have received an A as well. Do yourselves a favor people, stay away from AIU.
I went to AIU and received my Bachelors and Masters in Healthcare Management, neither is recognized in the real world. When I go on interviews I am laughed at because the degrees are useless. They pressured me and calculated in fact overcharged me for the classes, they made the classes more than what they should have been in order to get money on my behest for their school. I am now almost $200,000.00 in debt, and at the beginning I was told that I would only be paying under $30,000.00.
They did not help me at all with job placement or even leads for a job and when they did it was for manager a restaurants. Low level jobs paying poverty line pay. Someone needs to do something! If there is a lawsuit I want to be included I can not afford to even buy a car because of this and my credit score constantly going down. Noone wants to loan to a person that has $200,000.00 of debt already hanging over their head.
Those of us who have been ripped off need help NOW!
agreed.
Like you I was scammed by AIU. In short, Stay away from this scam. I completed AIUs BBA degree plan and completed it shortly before I retired from the US Coast Guard. I thought along with my 30 years of experience a degree would give me a better chance of getting a good civilian job, wrong!!!!! I soon found out no employers looked on the AIU degree as a real one. I decided to go back to school and get an MBA, and after applying at no less than 5 colleges/universities if found that not one of my AIU credits transferred. So I had to start all over. I now have several MS degrees as well as an MBA in project management. All I ended up with as far as AIU goes in 3 wasted years of time and over $25k in student loan debt. I should have known better, with AIUs high pressure sales tactics to take loans out and constant calls but I did not think about it. Also AIU outright lied about it's programs graduation employment numbers, salary stats as well as their so called after graduation employment help IE resume writing help and so on. I also should have been concerned about the grades I got in classes I was a well below average student in high school and did in fact drop out in my senior year, yet even with no experience in the business field I was getting all A's in classes and ended up with a 3.98gpa. I saved all papers I wrote during my AIU classes and looking at them now, IMO they would get a C in high school at best. I bet thinking back now if I would have submitted a drawing of a happy face as an assignment it would have received an A as well. Do yourselves a favor people, stay away from AIU.
I called by them by accdient at 10-pm, within five days,my School Student Portal Virtual Campus had an error, I think one of them is behind it, as they permanently banned me from the school's website, I can't view nothing on there, except on my Mobile app of the school.
If you plan on being at student at American Intercontinental University always get a more open-minded Admissions Counselor and Academic Adviser and Financial Aid Adviser, because some of the staff working at the school are as follows: "Hypersensitive," and they don't like it when you disagree with them or call them on the daily.
They detest, they will be at home plotting their revenge to make sure, you break and decide you want nothng to do with the school. Stand up to them, by remaining in attendance and staying with the school, but don't talk to them everyday, they get really moody about it. As for the school's website, stick with the mobile.
In 2009 I decided to go back to school. Being a basically single mother of 3 boys (and in a abusive relationship), I enrolled in AIU. I knew that I was already working full time and being a full time mother but I really wanted to be back in school. So I called up my AIU advisor and informed them of my entire situation and told them of my fear of flunking out for taking on too much at once. My advisor assured me that if it ever became too much I had all kinds of options. So I made it about 4 months and i saw I was barely making my assignments so I went back to my advisor and asked what I could do to lighten my load. At this time the advisor no longer sounded like I would be ok... they told me that there was ways for me to contact my teacher and there were sessions each week where the teacher broke down the assignments.... I informed him that that wasn't my issue, I reminded him of my concerns before enrolling and reminded him that he assured me if I was overwhelmed that they had other options for how my classes were set up.... He remember none of this and now here I am 9 years later 18,000 in debt and no degree.... I wanted to go back to school but being a single mother of 3 boys doesn't really allow me to pay the 345.00 a month payment plan they offered me
I requested general information about an online program and made a one time inquiry about program costs while reviewing other institutional plans. I thanked AIU for the information and told them that I was not interested and had no plans to enroll or attend, but their executive admissions staff stalked me and hounded me for more than two years. I requested that they stop all efforts to contact me by phone, email, mail, and texts, but various staff members engaged in unprofessional aggresive predatory marketing and relentlessly stalked me through abuses of No Call List and No Spam Act violations. I repeatedly demanded that they permanently remove my contact information, but they resorted to having more individuals harass me with unsolicited contacts and even forwarded generic marketing materials under other fake student names in direct violation of a documented Better Business Bureau and Consumer Affairs complaint. I have been forced to file formal complaints with area law enforcement, the FTC, and Higher Learning Commission in an attempt to challenge the organization's accredidation.
Had individuals behaved in a similar manner on the dating scene, they would be hauled off to prison for aggrivated criminal stalking and disorderly conduct; I expect the same for businesses and their employees/agents. I told area law enforcement that I need a protective restraining order to be served on this organization and its members, because I do not appreciate a business being able to continuously harass me despite clear demands to be left alone. I was never a student, never enrolled in their program, and never had any student loans or educational debt of any kind. I owe them no money.
Complaints sent to AIU's so-called regulatory operations Ombuds contact Daniel Sessions via [email protected] were rejected as undeliverable.
AIU is now emailing me satisfacion surveys! WTF? What part of do not contact me again do you not understand?
I am the victim of a fraudulent online school and possibly negligence by my lender/servicer ACS. I signed up with AIU in May of 2006. I contracted to pay a monthly tuition of $200.00. Six months later my tuition was increased to $350.00 a month and six months after that it was increased to $550.00. I could no longer afford to continue my schooling. The tuition was too high. I had paid them $3,255.78 in a period of twelve months. The school kicked me out of the course. I found that the school was taking unauthorized funds from my Stafford Loan and not advising me per the law. I contacted the Department of Education and was advised that the school must also inform the student of his or her right to cancel all or a portion of the loan. In reviewing all my records, I can find no record of the school complying with these laws. When I confronted the school with the above facts they manufactured bogus emails telling me of deductions. They were sent to an unknown (by me) email address and a wrong home address. Knowing the above facts, I would have opted out immediately and saved myself a lot of grief. I never completed ONE course, paid them $3,255.78 and now have a student loan debt of $24,690.73.
I attended AIU University online and was informed at the beginning doing enrollment that I only had enough to just finish my master courses. I come to find out that was misleading and incorrect information. When a student enrolled in college it is up to them to decide what amount of money they want or request for attending each semester specifically and that the payback money would be a requirement of the student to decide not the college. I fell, however; I felt AIU decided for me which was misleading and unacceptable. This has caused a financial hardship for me. I was promised a job in my field is what I was told on before and upon completion of my study degree that didn't happen either that was misleading and untrustworthy.
I was a student on American InterContinental University from April 25, 2016 to May 02, 2017. I completed my Associates on Criminal Justice. I utilize my GI Bill benefits, which VA covers 100% my tuition. In addition I receibed some payments from the Yellow Ribbon Program. Qualified for FAFSA, and for that reason AIU is saying that I have a debt with them. According to them they can not hold on to additional funds in the account and now that I am done with school they are charging me for a balance from June 21, 2016. Eventhough the records show that I had no balance up to October 25, 2016. I have called two times and sent an email and all they answered was that they could not hold the funds and I was still have a balance, so now I have to pay that balance on top of an online graduation fee.
Do not attend this online school!! All they want is your money and give you nothing in return but a piece of paper with "degree" written on it. This is the fakest online university ever created! They send you dozens of brochures, promises of employement and leave you hundreds of voice messages. Instead of helping you find employement, they offer you more classes and more degrees which cost MORE MONEY!! Don't fall for it ! Your transcripts DO NOT transfer, your degree means nothing and you"ll owe them your entire life in student loans, even for classes that don't apply to your chosen field. When they cannot get enough money out of you, they will ask your Parents to borrow for you and will not disclose the full amount they will actually end up owing! Don't let them fool you into attending this school as an attempt to further your education. Don't get DOOPED. STAY AWAY! Everything about them is FALSE.
I urge anyone seeking ro have their student loan forgiven from this ubsurd university to please go to: studentaid.ed.gov/borrower-defense Fill out the online application and submit it right there! They will review your case and possibly decide to have your debt fully forgiven or even partially forgiven. Anything is worth a shot to get out of this nightmare. If anyone is seeking a class action lawsuit, please count me in!
A.I.U. has no place in the world where young people fall into false hopes by this parasitic jerks i spoke to a representative over the phone and specificly told them if i continue would i be able to withdraw with no affect to my financial aid and i give the lord almighty thanks that i dident complete my financial aid they would of ripped me off i spoke to there representative and told him if i dident want to continue chould i leave he said yes i was only 2weeks into the school i withdrew and now i have this debt lingering RUINED MY CREDIT! !!!!! I dont have money to give for free can some one help stop our young generation from getting into debt by these parasitic jerks !!!
I signed up for American Intercontinental University when I was 17. It seemed like a good option for me living in Hawaii and feeling the pressure to get a college education. I signed up for business classes and was told that I needed a consigner and my mother agreed. I was told the loan would be in my name and she was just consigning. They ended up putting the entire thing in her name. I struggled with requirements for "group projects" because of my time difference in Hawaii. My student advisors changed weekly and I came across one that encouraged me to purposely fail classes I wasn't getting A's in so I could retake them for a better grade, even though I was passing. I was told I wouldn't be charged for this. As a perfectionist I did it with multiple classes aiming to get perfect grades. I was charged $2,500 each time I did that. When I started realizing what a joke the school was and that they were lying to me about almost everything I stopped taking classes. I am now 30 and just finished paying off my nearly $20k in debt a few years ago. I got nothing from this and am very upset they take advantage of young gullible people. Even though it's paid I've never let my grief and disgust with the company go and doing more research I see that there are so many others that were taken advantage of as well. I would love to be part of a class action lawsuit!
I enrolled with the school back in August and started my schooling for my bachelor's degree for health care management on August 22nd and I done everything that I needed to do and I got awarded my Fasfa and for Stafford loans and they withdrew me from their online school and they will not give me my loan money that was awarded to me. I have emailed them multiple times about wanting my money that I am now in debt for.
I am also interested in forming a class action lawsuit. The school informed me that some of my financial aid would not have to be paid back. They did not give thorough information on financial aid and could not answer questions about financial aid. They skewed the numbers so I would receive more financial aid than needed.
In addition, they indicated that they would help you find a job. They did not help very much. Moreover, the jobs that they did find were entry level and not for someone with experience. They were at poverty levels.
They attempted to try to get me to take more classes, but I refused.
AIU mislead me since the beginning. AIU told me I will earn my education paid by a program created by president Obama. This will consist in the government pay for single mother's education if they are head of household. After four years of graduate I received a bill for $54,000.00 in federal debt for student loan. AIU never fulfilled their promises of helping me to find a job. I was never able to work on the field I graduated. Now I am in a bid debt at my 60 years old and not having a job.
This university is a rip off and take advantage of all funds. Im still paying for this school since 2007 and could not get accreditation for none of my course work. They would not even send transcripts. Im trying to find out how they can eat this bill so I can start over with an accredited school. They sell lies and the banks maybe in on it. We will find out soon. Im going to the media for further investigation. Hope all will join me.