Almost every student comes to college to start a career, but some students who feel their focus is more difficult than others are using Facebook.com as an outlet for their frustration.

To find chatter about engineering majors is not difficult on the Web site.

A simple search of the word "engineer" reveals many groups that both support and oppose the notion that students in engineering programs have more work and less free time than others.

Benjamin Sarcia (freshman-psychology), a student at Penn State Altoona, said he posted a response to the Facebook group "4 Resentful Engineers (and other science majors, not to discriminate)" because he doesn't think it is fair that his friends, who are engineers, complain that he does less work.

"I was so mad when I saw it," Sarcia said. "I work pretty hard and most of my friends, who are engineering majors, say their GPA is low because their classes are hard -- and that I am taking easy classes."

CNN.com reported a study done by Careerbuilder.com that listed the top 10 fastest growing careers, based on salary. Of the 10, the first three listed jobs were engineering-related.

Co-President of "4 Resentful Engineers (and other science majors, not to discriminate)," Craig Blackburn (senior-mechanical engineering) said the Facebook group has provided an outlet to share the frustration of what engineering has done to his social life.

"Studying from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. or midnight; meanwhile, all of our friends have much more free time ... [so they can] go out and do the things we wish we could be doing," Blackburn said.

According to the study, the fastest growing career, computer systems software engineering, had a listed salary of $81,140.

Founder of the Facebook group "Engineering Students Who Think They're Better Than Everyone Else!" Jeremy Jones (senior-mechanical engineering) said he knows he will reap the benefits of his work when he graduates and he doesn't see it as unfair.

"It's harder, but it's what I expected," Jones said. "But, it is irritating to hear another major complain about how hard it is because they know what they signed up for, too."

Sarcia said the idea is not just something he hears on Facebook.com, but he thinks it is a buzz around campus as well.

Murry Nelson, department head of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, said nonengineering classes still involve a lot of work, but he didn't think the same amount of analysis is required.

"I think engineering majors would have a hard time in education classes and education students would have a hard time in engineering classes, so I think it's a silly thing to compare," Nelson said.

Sarcia said he knows the classes are different but doesn't think they are more difficult.

"I'm doing a lot of reading and they are doing a lot of math concepts," he said. "I don't think saying 'I have to do all this math homework' is justification for having a lower GPA."

Jones said he thinks engineering is more time intensive but not harder than some others.

"Things that involve a lot of writing are just as difficult," Jones said. "The physics and math majors have as much work ... but other things like advertising involve creativity, but the workload isn't the same," Jones said. "The Facebook group was just me sticking it to all my roommates who can sit around and watch movies all day."