It’s as incurable as the common cold and as devastating as the flu. A case of the Mondays can drag you down the entire length of the week, trudging along hoping to make it to Friday.

We all suffer from it, that feeling of dread that creeps in late Sunday evening as we realize we have to get back to work in the morning.

“Monday is the day right after the weekend, it means I have to start practice again and it’s just dreadful,” said Christina Gray, a junior accounting major. “I believe that we go into Monday with the wrong attitude, everything we do on Monday seems stupid or tiring.”

Gray believes Wednesdays to be relieving, and uses them as motivation to finish out the week strong.

“Hump Day” has become the tipping point for the downward slide to the weekend.

“My Mondays personally suck because as a freshman, I already had some courses scheduled for me and I couldn’t change them and ended up having to schedule around them.,” Macey Scott, freshmen kinesiology major said. “I have classes from eight to 10 a.m. and then three random breaks between the rest of my classes.”

Scott spends her breaks around campus, meeting up with friends. To cure that Monday slump, try scheduling some fun activities to get you through the day.

Attitude adjustment is the key to making a Monday slump disappear.

“The Monday negativity is a personal issue to me, you need to prepare Sunday for that uphill weekly warm-up,” Brendan McNeill, a sophomore history major said, “It’s not for everybody but it helps to find a reason to like Mondays.”

McNeill finds Mondays difficult due to staying out late Sunday and lacking the willpower to change his habits.

Starting the mornings out extremely early with a 30-minute bike ride also influences his opinion of the dreaded day.

Waking up and doing a small workout gets endorphins going that are proven to make people happier.

Jessica Andrews, a sophomore elementary education major, finds Mondays to be one of her favorite days of the week.

“If people would stop fretting about it, Monday could be the best day. It’s the first day you get to see your friends if you didn’t see them over the weekend and a chance to get involved in something that didn’t happen over the weekend,” Andrews said.

According to research from Rush University in Chicago “social jet lag” may be a cause of Monday morning blues.

Staying up late and sleeping in might be a reason for your slow start to the week.

With the right attitude and a bright outlook we can change that Monday slump into the bright beginning of a good week.