A warning, of sorts

I've noticed for a couple essays and journals that I've had to write recently that for some reason, I find it easier to think here. Maybe it's because I don't need my words to be perfect the first time around, so I can just write down ideas and jump from thought to thought. Whatever the reason, I have a number of essay-esque things I need to write for the Presidential Scholars Application -
(Did I mention I'm a candidate for that? It's cool, but, well, there are pros and cons...
Pro: only about 4000 students out of the millions that take the SAT become candidates.
Con: only 141 of those 4000 actually become Presidential Scholars.
Pro: if you get it, you get to fly to D.C. and meet Obama!
Con: there's no money involved; it's not a scholarship.
Additional con: there are five essays I need to write for it. Most of them are supposed to be about a paragraph long, but the mondo-gigantic one is supposed to be 10,800 characters long.
10,800 characters is approximately four times the length of my college essay. It is about six pages of double-spaced text. I honestly don't know if they expect me to use all that space, but holy shit.)
 - anyway, so I figured I'd write them on this blog, and then edit them for stuff like grammar and formality and language. I'll probably post them too, cause why not, so potentially expect some musing-y/personal blogs that are sort of boring in the near future.