In pages 164-166 of Adichie’s novel Americanah, Ifemelu discusses her feelings about American college classrooms. Some of her thoughts I completely agree with, and others I’m not so sure. She mentions how students say “I’m not sure” instead of “I don’t know,” something I have seen more in high school classes than now. My experience in high school has shown me that students, myself included, don’t want to tell the teacher they don’t know something, especially if it’s what the teacher has been teaching recently. Students say things that do exactly what Adichie says, they “give no information but suggest the possibility of knowledge.” Also, Adichie says that students don’t know how to speak, and I have seen a similar pattern with writing. I know I am not a perfect writer, but I’ve noticed, again mostly in high school as I haven’t had a chance to read nearly as much student writing here yet, that students write poorly. Once again, I’m by no means a perfect writer, but there are some students whose writing ability isn’t as good as it could be in high school. The last topic I really agree with his her section on textbooks. I bought a book for math class and so far my professor hasn’t taught us anything similar to what’s in the book, and has even gone as far as to say that we won’t find what we’re learning in any book or any website. Additionally, my chemistry lecture and lab required me to buy six different things. So far we have needed to use all of these, but it still seems a little over the top to me. Another topic she talks about is education ideologies in America and Nigeria, which appear to have stark differences based on how Adichie describes them. To me, her description makes it sound like education in Nigeria has a real, solid point, but I do not mean that American education is pointless. She talks about participation like it is useless, that students just say random things to get their participation points that take away from the real learning of the class. Also, she says how Americans give suggestions rather than instructions. This leads me to believe that education in Nigeria is straight forward. If I were in Adichie’s shoes, I would notice that some of my classes involve a lot more talking and discussion than others. They really make the student pay attention and contribute to the class. Another thing I’d notice is that Penn State values group work, so far I have a group or partner for all of my classes except one, math. Based on these two observations, I would generalize it by saying that Penn State values student interaction in the classroom. In these three pages by Adichie, she writes some things that I feel a lot of college students probably agree with and have noticed in their own college experience.