19 year-old male from Europe (I am American though!) I joined about 3 years ago during summer, after I first found out about RvB (Friend had a DVD). I joined to keep my sanity over the Summer Break, now I just kill time here, and support RT!
It counts if you use one of the european timezone and as a new group we need all the peopla we can get to get it rolling so you are more then welcome =)..good luck with school, what are you studying?=)
The only things that sidetracked me were the Assassin tombs and occasionally going back to upgrade the villa. I only did viewpoints and codex pages if I walked right past them, and didn't do any of the side missions.
I'm not happy there. I'm forgetting too much stuff. But I think they have too high standards for a student. Yes, it's production work and everything should go fast, but the lab there is (imo) disorganised and it's hard to keep up when you have multiple things to do at once.