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Well, I predicted a close game - but not that close!

My heart broke for my boys as they lost to the Aggies by one point in overtime. The fact that Oklahoma State missed two kicks for extra points made the loss even more difficult to swallow.

However, it was a hell of a game. Starting quarterback Bobby Reid suffered a concussion in the second quarter and did not return. Backup Zac Robinson saw playing time for the first time in his career. He did an outstanding job, throwing three touchdown passes.

Why can’t the Cowboys get it done in the last two minutes? OSU has lost after owning leads in the final minutes of three of its past four games.

Head coach Mike Gundy has doubled up on two-minute drills in hopes of teaching the Cowboys how to protect a lead.

The players had red eyes when I tried to talk to them after the defeat.

Mom came up for homecoming walkaround and ended up watching me play beer pong at a friend’s party.

Unfortunately, I lost, just like the Cowboys.

My favorite roommate (Don’t tell Aaron because I say the same thing about him.) was kind enough to leave the orange-beer kegger to walk with Mom and me.

Here are a couple of the house decs displayed at walkaround.

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Well, the nation’s largest homecoming has returned again. It starts at 6:30 Friday evening with walk around to see the floats made by the fraternities and sororities. Mom is coming for that part, but Dad won’t make it until Saturday for the battle between OSU and Texas A&M. I’m going to take Mom to the Copper Penny, the coolest bar on the strip and home to most of the agriculture and animal science majors.

Texas A&M is good and they’re big. They are a quality Texas program with quality recruits.

Although OSU has had a lot of success on offense, their inexperienced defense needs seasoning.

I predict OSU falls behind in the first half but makes up the points early in the third. That means a shootout in the fourth quarter!

I hope we win!

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As I read Nancy Gibbs’ article “Making time for baby,” I experienced surprise that science could not help the grief-stricken women who waited too long to have children and anger that they were “tricked” into believing in their fertility until menopause. Despite headlines about births to women over 40, the reality is much less promising. “There’s no promising therapy for age-related infertility,” said Dr. Michael Soules in Gibbs’ article. Unfortunately, many women believe they can get pregnant into their 40s. For many, this isn’t true.

Both Jennifer Egan’s article “Wanted: A Few Good Sperm” and Gibbs’ article impress a feeling of betrayal of women in general. It seems that most of the stories of women more than 40 giving birth to healthy babies forgot to mention the very small numbers in which this occurs or the major treatment and expense of such births. However, all of the articles relate a common theme: Women must plan their lives. They can choose to put their careers first and risk neglecting their children, put their children first and neglect their careers or try to balance them and go crazy. However, women have a fourth option: not to make a choice at all and end up barren thanks to their mature ages.

I agree with Sylvia Ann Hewlett that men don’t face the same cruel choices as women. Although my own plans for children and a career have been at the forefront of my thoughts recently, I know that my boyfriend has never once considered how he will balance work and family. While I spend brain power considering things like the best time to get married, the best time to have children, how much time away from work is necessary to have a child, how having a child will affect my career, the pros and cons of day care vs. baby sitters or a nanny, whether we will live near my parents or my husband’s parents, etc., the only things he considers are financial in nature – can he support a wife and can he support a child. He never feels that everything he has worked for will be threatened by his desire to be a father.

By Jami Fichte