The school year is already a good three or four weeks in, and now that Labor Day has passed, you have nothing to look forward to until Thanksgiving. It isn't even October yet, and you're already feeling the slump! It is totally acceptable. Lucky for you, there is a list of solutions to keep you on track when you feel yourself succumbing to the slump.

1. Create a new morning routine.

Why start off your day already in a slump? Instead of waking up 10 minutes before class starts, get up a few hours before. You can eat a solid breakfast, pick out a cute outfit (attempt possibly to include clothing that is not made of mostly stretchy material), make some coffee and take 10 minutes to sit and wake up.

2. Find something else to do at the end of the day besides binge-watching Netflix.

When you have activities in your life that aren't mind numbing, it actually makes your day feel full and your life less bleak. You can try reading a book, writing in a journal or maybe going to bed at a decent hour instead of after midnight. Just try it.

3. Put your phone away.

The phone trap is so easy to get lost in. You grab your phone, innocently open a social media site and scroll for a few seconds as you kill a few thousand brain cells. Then you realize in the mean time, the Earth rotated around the sun a few times, and you've grown a long white beard. Stop the mindless scrolling and try to make your existence on this planet justifiable.

4. Avoid lying in your bed until a certain hour of the day.

The bed trap is just as enticing and difficult to break free from as the phone trap. I know we all love our beds, however, we need to remember its primary role is to provide a place to sleep. The second you lie on your bed, your body and brain think it's bed time, and you can't help but curl up like a hibernating fox and pass out. Tell yourself you're not allowed to lay down in bed until an hour or so before you actually want to sleep. Instead, try to sit in a mystical piece of furniture that is not plush: a chair.

5. Make a point to go to the gym.

I know this is something you read in pretty much every article, but there are many reasons why going to the gym is beneficial besides the obvious. The gym fills up at least an hour of your day (plus/minus transportation time), makes you feel accomplished, occupies your body and mind in a healthy way and prevents you from turning into a huge sack due to the bad food you've eaten (see #8).

6. Be actively present in your everyday activities.

It is easy to go right into autopilot when sitting in class or doing school work. This is the base of the slump problem; the less present we are in our lives, the more our lives feel like a consistent replay of the same, mundane day. Try to be ever present in everything you do, and your day will suddenly feel more full. Your brain will feel less like mush.

7. Invest in your personal growth.

Find a new hobby or revisit something you used to like. Invest time into things you like to do, instead of completing mundane activities, like mindless phone scrolling or T.V. binge-watching. You will feel like a more well-rounded, interesting and complex human being. Instead of saying you love cheeseburgers and cats when explaining yourself to someone, you could say you play the guitar and appreciate the work of Monet and Fitzgerald.

8. Do not buy trashy food.

I know it's easy to get microwaveable food and make it with little-to-no effort. Take the time to buy fresh ingredients, plan out recipes and make recipes. You will spend a few hours functioning like a healthy adult, rather than sitting on your bed passed out with stains of marinara sauce on your drooling face. It is quite simple.

Shit Food + Human Body = Shit Human Body

Green Food + Human Body = Happy Human Body

9. Take care of your shit.

Usually a slump indicates you're being complacent, or even lazy, with your life and responsibilities. This should be a sign that maybe you are ignoring some important parts in your life, like getting your assignments in so you can still graduate in time or making money so you're not living on the street. Reevaluate your daily activities. Do I really need to take two naps everyday, or is there something better I can be doing with my time?

10. Stop the naps. Just stop.

This might be the most difficult, but let's be real. Naps suck, and I hate them. Usually, a nap is when the sun is up and you have been lying in your bed for at least 6 hours (see #4). You give in to the slumber as your Netflix show continues to play for four episodes, and your friends wonder if you've suddenly disappeared off the face of Earth.

When you finally, and suddenly, wake up, you're instantly in a state of panic. You have no idea what time it is. You feel sweaty, gross and uncomfortable, and you worry you spent the last 6 months asleep on top of your covers. Think of everything you could have done during those lost hours! This behavior only furthers the slump, since you'll spend precious hours later that night lying awake and scrolling on your phone in bed.