New student: Finding a room isn't hard

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it's GETTING a room that is:\

So at the end of this month I'll be attending a university that's more than 3 hours traveling from where I live (in other words, I'd be traveling up to 7 hours a day just to get to and from uni), which is quite frankly a ridiculous amount of time.

I desperately need a room.

I've sent out countless e-mails, attempted to phone two people (unsuccessfully), and I signed up at some student organisation that has a bunch of complexes for students.
However the student accommodation thing has a ridiculously long waiting list, even for those in the 1st category of urgency (those who'd have to travel more than 3 hours).

I only got one response to an e-mail, I went to look at the place but the guy ended up picking another roommate he liked better.

Just now my sister yelled at me to call the student accommodation thing (to which I burst into tears as people yelling at me does that to me) as she thinks I should stand up for myself (eventhough the website says that right now they're placing people who signed up in January, not March... which is when I signed up).

I'm getting increasingly stressed out right now.

I know that getting a room is going to be hard because of my quiet/passive personality.
I'm not the bubbly, outgoing person so many people look for as their roommate. I can't fake interest. I only ask what I want to know and speak when I have something to say. Which is pretty destructive when looking for a room in a student 'house'.


Last week I finally got my assessment, and though there's still much to find out, the psychiatrist did say I have trouble processing/taking in information (including the sensory part etc.). She did mention some disorder, but I can't find the English word for it, it roughly translates to: Information Processing Disorder.
I don't have autism, she didn't mention asperger's but I got a PDD-NOS question form to fill in and bring back in two weeks.

The student accomodation organisation does make an exception for people with great urgency to find a room (people who have trouble at home, who have psychiatric problems etc.), and because it's very hard for me to handle the stress of traveling due to my sensory problems and far from perfect social skills...

I was wondering whether I could try getting a room via that route (the disability route)...
Even though it feels like I'm just taking advantage of it:\ I mean physically I'm very much capable of traveling, it's just what it does to me mentally that's the problem.


ANNNYYYWAYYYY.

I was told to start a thread here instead of the 'adult' section, hope you don't mind.

I was also wondering how others have dealt with this.. finding a room?
Was it easy for you? How did you get people to like you:\


In the Netherlands the universities don't have dorms, you're basically all by yourself when it comes to getting a room:\