Abigail “Abi” Bauer is a junior at Emerson High School and this is her first year as a staff writer. Besides writing for The Charge, she is an Academic Decathlon participant. She studies Mandarin Chinese as a second language and hopes to study for a year in China or Taiwan. She loves traveling and learning/writing about international affairs and cultures that are new to her. She wants to attend medical school after high school and the specialty she is interested in now is anesthesiology.