<p>As a resident nerd, I’ll field the what’s a zergling question:</p>
<p>A zergling is an insect-like alien from the popular 1998 real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of the extremely popular World of Warcraft (probably at least one person on your floor (will – assuming you aren’t there yet) plays this. In the mechanics of Starcraft, they are the cheapest cannon fodder unit (think like a pawn in chess), available to the player who is playing as voracious space aliens called the Zerg. Closest analogue is the Alien from Aliens. </p>
<p>This has led to expressions such as zerg rush – meaning piling on a player or person en masse with the intention of dominating them in game or serving as a distraction. Can also refer to dog piling, using way more people than necessary to kidnap someone for a party or other event, or any other usage.</p>
<p>Now, for a grammar disection! Zerg is the operative noun, that being said voracious space aliens, -ling, being a German holdover/loan suffix refering to a diminutive, often endearing. Thus, zergling in proper parlance is ‘little Zerg’. </p>
<p>Now, when in sexile, Zerg Rushing can be quite humorous. If they are taking an especially long time or do it frequently enough to be annoying and won’t listen to reason – zerg rushing your own room with your floor can be quite funny and get the point across quite nicely. What you do, is you guys storm the room and then start milling around like it was perfectly normal. ;)</p>
<p>ahh kk, thank you so much for the elaborate explanation of the etymology of the word zergling, I truly learnt a lot, now I see where the “ling” added to something to make it seem more little came from. And I learned a little about Starcraft (I’ve never played warcraft or starcraft). That was truly enlightening and I appreciate the thorough response! Thanks!</p>
<p>I would assume sarcasm there, Diiviio, or at least facetiousness. I specialize in over the top and often silly threads with the point at the end. Zergling rush your sexiling roommate for humorous results say I! :D</p>
<p>actually I was being serious. I honestly had not known the the origin of the “ling” suffix until now since I had never taken German. And I have played RPGs and RTS or w/e they’re called, so I understand the ranks and the pawn level characters and comparing it to chess was good too since you took into consideration the fact that he reader might not have ever played a video game. So yeah my thanks was completely candid. I love to learn and knowledge is knowledge, no matter what.</p>
<p>If I recall correctly, you are since you are Indian. Caucasian isn’t defined by skin color, it is defined by cranial features. Most South Asians, many Central Asians, and most Middle-Easterners are Caucasian.</p>
<p>Caucasian is a stupid word, because people use it to convey things it doesn’t mean (i.e. Caucasian does not mean white-skinned).</p>
<p>Actually I don’t believe Indians are true Caucasians since they are only part Aryan and part of this group of people whose name I can’t remember who were native to the Indian subcontinent, which was once part of Africa. Interbreeding occurred when the Aryans came down into the Indian subcontinent, and those Aryans were Caucasians, which is why North Indians usually look more “Caucasian” than South Indians, but you are right Caucasians aren’t just white people.</p>
<p>I agree it is annoying when people use terms incorrectly, but words like “force”, “power”, and “momentum” are used incorrectly too because over time people of notable worth in society use the words slightly differently from their original meaning and it gains wide acceptance. It’s sad but society doesn’t always dictate what is truly correct.</p>
<p>Awesome post. Good thing to know about the contract. I am okay as long is not in midterms/finals, they don’t take more than an hour and it is not in my bed or chair. I will gladly honor these too. Hope I can get along with my roomate.</p>
<p>It’s pretty rare for people to get ****y if you can justify saying “No” when they ask you to leave, and since midterms are usually all at roughly the same time, chances are they’ll be working too.</p>
<p>The hour thing probably won’t be much of an issue either - most sexiling agreements I’ve heard of are for 20 minutes, which sounds pretty reasonable you consider that the statistical average for the duration of actual sex is (and I quote) “Three minutes of vigorous thrusting.”</p>
<p>am I the only berkeley student who’s completely sexually inexperienced? I’m gonna be a junior transfer and i haven’t even kissed a guy yet. (okay…leave me alone while I go back to reading my twilight books…)</p>
<p>Don’t worry ecullen. I hadn’t so much as kissed a girl until my first year of college and hadn’t even had an experience of the sexual sort until my third. I can still count the number of people I slept with on one hand and have had maybe two meaningful relationships at any point in my life. Sad, huh? And I’m 26. People talk a lot of game, but it’s all talk. </p>
<p>People really do not have inordinate amounts of random crazy sex at UC Berkeley. The joke is that everyone has sex at Berkeley, theoretically. And from what I understand, a lot of people graduate from Cal still virgins. </p>
<p>Trust me on this, most people are going to be plenty busy with their classes and keeping up that stuff like that rapidly becomes a secondary concern. That being said, I don’t recall any such sexiling going on in either dorm I lived in. If there was, it was usually a boyfriend paying a girl a visit and he was from outside.</p>
<p>I have never even kissed a girl so you aren’t sexually inexperienced ecullen. But yeah like andrew said, for most over achieving kids, many will put academics first and love life later if they can’t manage to handle both at the same time. If they can handle both, then good for them.</p>
<p>Sexiling, Zergling, kissing…it’d be good of you to pick up on these things within the next four years. You’re in college to gain knowledge and experiences that will benefit your future. These encompass a lot of aspects. Learn to balance.
As for my personal love life…I never pursued. I have never met someone whom I liked enough to make the first move, circumstance being that I still have x years to find someone I’d like to keep around as a spouse. Things just come up and I either awkwardly reject or have messy periods of blurriness which have sometimes really sucked. Bleh.
Including high school years, I’ve rejected several. I’ve had blurriness with maybe two, the second of which is ongoing… </p>
<p>As for my “remaining pure” argument, the mindset wasn’t forced upon me. I came across the idea and voluntarily accepted that it seemed like a good idea. A guy may feel that he wants to remain pure, too (though from my experience, this isn’t as common relative to girls). It’s not just telling the next person that I’m pure, but trying to get together with someone while you’re dragging around a history can complicate things. Chastity and personality could be correlated. Current blurry guy has a history more extensive than my own…I don’t like that. No matter what you say, I’ll wonder to myself if I’ll turn into girl #__ to you. </p>
<p>Well. This thread has strayed from the topic.</p>
<p>^that makes sense I suppose. I wasn’t saying it was a bad idea to wait till marriage since I plan on doing that, but I guess I just didn’t like the word “pure” being used since I feel if a guy cheated a girl and used her just for her body when she thought he truly loved her, to me I don’t think it’s fair to say she’s “impure” or anything like that. But yeah waiting till marriage does seem like a good idea because if I guy truly loved you he probably wouldn’t mind waiting till marriage, although I have seen lots of couples who had premarital sex with each other get married too, so I guess there’s no absolute formula.</p>
You’re in college to gain knowledge and experiences that will benefit your future. These encompass a lot of aspects. Learn to balance.