No, you didn't mess up, its just that mole conversions are more high school level problems than college, although the freshman classes start with mole problems as presumed review. People who did not major in science or engineering probably don't know this so for most readers it's no problem at all.
I would have suggested that you use a problem of calculating the 'free energy' of a reaction. This is something used at all levels of chemistry that gets harder as reactions get more complicated, so it leaves the level of their work more ambiguous.
Um, just to sum up, I'm trying to give you a very broad-brush overview of where your chemistry class will be going this year. You'll probably only work with fairly simple reactions, but you will talk about thermodynamics and a little bit about chemical kinetics before the year ends. If you have a vague idea now what these concepts are, then by the time you get to them you'll be, 'oh, yeah, that's like that trip from Denver to San Francisco thing' (and your classmates will be all 'wtf are you talking about?')
Thank you! See? That's why I like information overload. I get to freak people out with my knowledge. *uses psycho superpowers* I'll make sure to review these comments to make sure I know what I'm talking about. XD
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