It's no secret that sorority girls get a bad rap from most of society. It's not even just sorority girls, any pretty, fit, and usually blonde girl will be labeled as someone super into partying who doesn't take school or their career seriously. They say she is only attending college to obtain her "Mrs. degree," settle down with her millionaire husband somewhere sunny, and spend her life tanning by the pool between botox injections. It's easy to fall back on this stereotype, because hey, Thursday nights are fun, classes are hard, and your frat guy hookup's dad has him all set up to take over his company, but there's so much more to life than being someone's wife.

A perfect example for anyone thinking like this is everyone's favorite sorority girl, Elle Woods. Elle Woods is one who made all of the people who ever questioned the intentions of the pretty, blonde sorority girls take a second look.

Elle Woods is the former president of the fictional Delta Nu sorority at UCLA, and she follows her jerk college boyfriend, Warner, to Harvard Law school. Not a great start, I know, but when Warner got engaged to Vivien, who was as preppy as she was mean, Elle got her butt into gear and totally killed the Law School game.

Even though it took a guy to get her to go to law school, once she was there, she realized that she actually had a passion for what she was studying and worked to earn an actual career. And when Warner came groveling back to her (because boys have a way of doing that) she shut him down, because she realized that she didn't need him to be happy or successful.

I think every college woman needs to take this mentality in stride. Aiming to find something you love to do and being great at it is so important and gives so much more meaning to your life. I can't imagine a more boring life than spending your entire adult life posing as a trophy next to your husband and standing idly as you watch all of his achievements. Everyone has the capability to achieve something great in their lifetime, and whether they capitalize on that or not is up to them.

I spend a lot of my time and waste a lot of breaths complaining about how much boys suck, but that isn't what this article is supposed to be about. It's because I've seen so many college-aged girls waste their potential and focus on going on the most fraternity weekenders or getting the most likes on Instagram. Those superficial things aren't something that is going to benefit you in the long run.

I'm not saying that you need to get into Harvard Law, I'm just saying that it's going to pay to be the Elle Woods of whatever you want to do.