It sounds like you're basing this experience opinion off of a few job and internship postings you've seen on the top of the pile. You need to dive way deeper and take the time to research many more openings for positions and internships. You're not going to find all of them on one or two websites, and you're not going to find them all in a week or less.

There are people who will apply to over 100 positions, land interviews for 5-10 of them, receive offers for 2-4 of them, and accept one of them. It won't always be that way for everyone, but it does happen. Also, entry level jobs that do not require experience do exist, they're just not always available due to high demand.

If you keep at it with this "I tried this once already and it didn't work" mentality, you're already setting yourself up for failure. This isn't a game of instant gratification, this is a process. You have to try more than just once, and you have to have the discipline to do so over an extended period of time to produce results. That's realistic.

To answer your initial question, use the internet. There's an ocean of information available at your disposal.

• Begin surveying the various areas of IT and the positions found within them.
  
• Find job postings for these positions nationwide and start identifying patterns in what qualifications and experience they request--whether it be a specific technology (Nagios, Wireshark, Puppet, VMware, Linux) or a full on certification like CCNA or RHCSA. Make a master list for each position.
  
• Begin researching these technologies on your own through certification study materials or tutorials on a particular utility or IT concept.
  
• Sit in on a youtube certification course or software tutorial, follow the breadcrumb trail of related channels which also offer up IT education. Visit edx.org and enroll in a few free classes yourself.

Learn about everything. Associate job positions with specific technologies, and continue to research them. Talk to your department heads and career advisors at your school and ask them questions. Look into books on the topic of IT careers and how to build one of your own. And don't stop until you have your questions answered.

Good luck.