I saw a post made by a pre-law student about how she's going to meet Gaga and it inspired me to talk about how excited I am to meet Gaga. Not to turn attention on myself or anything, just to express how I'm in a similar situation. I'm in nursing school and it's my last semester, meaning I graduate and get my license in May (if I pass my boards first try). Nursing school has been a long, difficult journey and my brain is running low on gas. I'm burning out from all the hard work and the stress. I've had ulcers, diagnosed anxiety, and a compromised immune system all from the stress of nursing school. As you know, Gaga had to cancel her last tour the day before she was supposed to play in Chicago. My friend and I got a hotel room for the night before, prepared our costumes, and had this elaborate game-plan on how we wanted to try and get Gaga to pick us to go backstage. So 5 minutes (no joke) before I was about to drive 2 hours home from college to pick up my friend, I found out our dearest Gaga injured herself and was cancelling her tour. Being in the medical field, I was actually relieved that she was treating an injury that she ignored (Bad girl, Gaga!), but I was deeply disheartened that I wasn't going to see her. Born This Way was my favorite Gaga album and I was looking forward to this tour so much that it would give me major anxiety and keep me up at night whenever I thought about possibly not meeting her. THEN, ARTRAVE came along. A concert that involved my two favorite things, Gaga and raving? You gotta be sh-tting me! I was so happy and forgot about all the sadness I felt from not seeing her in Chicago last year. Then, (dun dun dunnnn), I found out she was selling meet and greet passes. I immediately decided that I was going to buy these passes for myself and my two closest Gaga-crazed friends. I've been saving most of my money from working various jobs for 5 years, so why not? What good is extra money if you're only spending it on yourself? I wanted to experience this with my two close friends who couldn't necessarily afford to buy these tickets at the moment. Hoarding money is also silly to me, because life is so short and an opportunity like this may never come up again. I've been thankfully coasting on loans, grants, and scholarships that enabled my tuition to be paid without me having to spend a ridiculous amount of money on school. It is my number one dream to meet Gaga, so this is SO worth it. My friend and I called each other up the morning that the tickets were to go on sale. She was to buy 2 tickets and I was to buy 1. I gave her my credit card information and we just waited. The SECOND tickets went on sale, we nabbed them! As soon as our orders were confirmed, we started bawling. We love Gaga so much and I couldn't ask for a better motivator to kick ass in my last semester of college. Whenever I feel stressed, overwhelmed, or like I can't handle another semester, I remind myself: You're going to meet Gaga in July. It immediately boosts my engine into full-force and I'm suddenly motivated. Gaga, thank you for giving us this opportunity. I'm so f***** stoked to meet you, I can't even listen to ARTPOP without crying from being so excited! #gaga #meetandgreet #ARTRAVE #SOEXCITED #ArtpopZone #artpopzonepackage #Personalstories