How is it possible to get an internship if they require "experience"?

MikeM2011
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:08:34 +0000

I’m a student at Burlington County College in NJ expected to transfer over the next year and I’m trying to find internships in the IT industry (with main focus on networking, security, and a few programming courses here and there), but a lot of them specifically require work experience. Problem is, HOW can you get work experience? Isn’t the purpose of internships? If I had the experience, I would be getting a job, not an internship. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a whole lot of experience outside of the courses I have learned because BCC keeps cutting back on their technology courses in favor of nursing and related fields, and I’m somewhat mentally slow so I’m not the best self-learner out there. How do I start? I’m really in a fog here.