for those who don’t know, potnonomicaphobia is the fear….

of potatoes

So a little backstory, for school (I’m in grade 9), we had to do a science fair, which was worth 20% of our final science grade. When we started choosing topics like 2 or 3 months ago, I couldn’t choose one, but my teacher had a list with potential topics, so i decided to choose a random one from there. Little did I know that I chose a super hard topic, which was the effect of temperature on enzyme function. Now, it could’ve been easier, but we were supposed to research previous studies and make alterations, and I could barely understand what they were doing in these previous studies, but I did know they were finding reaction rate, so i changed the dependent variable, which made it way harder.

Being the tryhard I am, I decided to continue on, and I wrote my procedure. In essence, I used the enzyme ‘catalase’ in potatoes to increase the rate at which hydrogen peroxide turned into water and oxygen. I had to rewrite my procedure a million times, and at the end, it was super complicated, involving doing the experiment in a vacuum chamber. It was stressful (don’t tell me i’m only in grade 9 it’s not important. I heard that from my brother enough times. i have very high standards), and I even ended up being 2 or 3 days late, but my presentation was pretty good (relative to other people’s). This all ended on Thursday, however lately, I’ve noticed that I cannot stand to even look at raw potatoes. Any form of cooked potatoes are fine (I think), but raw potatoes… ughh

so how have ur guys’ weekend been going?