The end of the semester is stressful for all college students (especially if you're an English major like me and have to write half a dozen papers because writing-intensive classes are unfortunately your passion). Yet, finals week can get even more stressful for those who have procrastinated continuously on papers and studying for exams (and let's be real, I am still talking about every single college student). We all have different processes for procrastinating: some go out and party until they have to call Uber home, some watch Netflix for 10 hours in their jammies and some even work on other assignments rather than the one due in the next 15 minutes. I decided to compile a general how-to list specifically geared towards procrastinators trying to finish final papers.

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1. Turn on your laptop and wait for all the Windows updates you decided to not download last night in the middle of that "House of Cards" episode.

Don't worry. This will only take a minimum of two hours. If you already weren't feeling up to working on your paper, then this just further justifies your laziness.

2. Open a blank Word document and stare at the screen for approximately 10 minutes.

Maybe you could take this time to jot a few words down, like your full name or the date that the paper is due. Oh wait, that is due today before midnight.

3. Time for a Netflix break!

After all, it's not your fault that your computer took forever to turn on (see step one), so you might as well congratulate yourself for your patience and getting some words on the paper (see step two). You have a few hours to kill before you really have to go on crunch time, anyway.

4. Realize that you only have two hours left to turn in your paper and actually start working.

At this point, you will most likely vigorously type out a sentence or two, and maybe even the introductory paragraph if you're especially dedicated. You’ll be proud of yourself for completing so much in such little time.

Which brings us to…

5. Check all of your social media accounts...twice.

You figure you can reward yourself for your efforts now. After all, you did do a stellar job of barely working on your paper. At this rate, you'll have it done in no time.

6. Look at the clock and see that you only have an hour left.

Why do you have so many social media accounts to check? Why didn't the teacher give you more time to complete this paper? (Disregard the fact that you have waited up now to actually start on it.) Life is not fair.

In case you haven't figured it out, this is the correct time to panic.

7. Magically finish your paper with two minutes left to go and submit.

You promise that you'll never wait until the last minute to finish a paper again. But be honest with yourself. You're totally going to repeat these steps tomorrow for your philosophy paper.