Economy sucks, where will I find an Internship?

I'm not sure why, but I'm am on a purple and italic 'kick' here lately... Oh, and as you will notice I absolutely love love love! the lingering 3 dots at the end of a sentence... See? I'm not sure why, but I have become addicted! So I will go ahead and apologize in advance and try to write this as grammatically proper as possible!
So, about a year ago I started researching internships. I want to be as big as possible one day so I wanted to work for a well known professional when it came time for me to do my internship for school and I knew there were not many of those in little Athens, AL; actually I don't believe there are any.

I talked with a producer from HGTV to see if they had any openenings, but they were all public relations, business type internships, ironically none for interior designers. Well, I put off the thought for a while until the beginning of school this semester when I found out the students a year ahead of me looked all summer for internships and couldn't find one! Because the economy sucked so much designers didn't even want 'FREE' help! How crazy!? This is when I realized that I needed to pull up the search engine again and get a head start on things.

I came across University of Dreams. This site looked familiar then I remembered I had visited it a year ago on my first quest for internships. I decided that the tuition and travel cost was not as expensive as the knowledge I would gain in those two months! I talked with my family and decided that we would find a way to make it possible. So I filled out my application, submitted the fee and waited... and waited... AND WAITED!!!

i'm out =)