That's fucked up

I made a catastrophic data mistake in my first 6 months of being on this MS project (after a year of a project that went nowhere, and that my advisor also dumped 3 months after me).

I am so fucked. Figured it out Saturday afternoon, while I was in the lab, and looking at some old tables that I needed for my results write up. It was like... holy fuck, how could I have done that? I think it was a combination of too many results at the same time and a nomenclature change that didn't make it clear what had happened.

The horrid thing is is that I'd have been able to fix it, easily had I know it.

Sick to my stomach over this.

Emailed my advisor with the news late last night... well, early this morning. No need to ruin her weekend too. That was not an easy email to send.

ETA Advisor pretty meh about it. It doesn't invalidate the results we have and we just have to go about explaining that we're missing replicates. OMG.