Dropped in an application myself, even if I havn't been posting too long on these boards, but I love doing work for the community. I guess one thing to show my dedication for this kinda things could be my 6000+ posts on G1's APB:R forums, that I joined this January after they started bringing the game back from the dead. That's over 21 posts a day, and none of them are just "lol" or "+1", but everyone pretty much constructive posts with actual content. I spend way too much reading and writing on various forums
So far university hasn't suffered too much from it, though
Then again, I really dislike IRC so that'll probably kill my chances