Finals week is without a doubt the most traumatic week of the college semester. Exams, essays, presentations, theses, cumulative finals... Frankly, it would be incredible if someone could go through all of that and come out unscathed on the other side. Alcoholics Anonymous is famous for employing a 12-step program to help addicts recover from their addictions. While your post-finals trauma may not be as severe as alcoholism, a coping mechanism would be nice. Follow this 12-step program tailored to the overworked college student.

1. We admit that we are powerless over our schoolwork -- that our lives have become unmanageable and that we need help.

2. We believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.

3. We forgive ourselves for skipping parties, dinners out and sunbathing on the quad for the sake of studying.

Pain is temporary. GPA is forever.

4. We make a searching and fearless inventory of our study habits over the last semester and acknowledge that spending 12 straight hours in the library is a regrettable yet necessary evil.

5. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being that we should have done more practice problems rather than play FIFA all night before our cumulative chemistry final.

6. We find reasons to rejoice in light of the crushing despair finals placed upon us. For example, thank God that we'll never have to take another ethics class ever again.

7. We humbly ask our professors to forgive our shortcomings on the final we just handed it and to be generous with partial credit.

8. We make a list of all the harm we have done to our healthy lifestyle, personal hygiene and mental sanity as a result of overstudying, and become willing to make amends to them all.

9. We reject all caffeinated drinks and junk food that we consumed for a week straight, and realize that any reasonable human being can't continue doing that without serious health problems.

10. We continue to take personal inventories, and when we realize that we really should be doing something productive rather than watching Netflix, we act on that realization.

11. We pledge never again to postpone an entire 20-page paper until 9:00 the night before.

12. Having had a personal awakening as a result of these steps, we pledge to spread what we have learned to next year's unsuspecting freshmen, so that they might not suffer the same fate that we did.

Format and certain passages of the above steps taken from "The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous" AA Publishing, 1981.