A very good read.
I was like that dude. While I was on internship (for one year), I didn't really do much after work so I picked up WoW. That game took over my life. I went to work, I came home, and I played WoW. For one year straight. I was clocking in 40 hours a week, raiding nearly every single day and farming and stuff. It was fucking insane. Thankfully, I can control myself, and I'm back in school now doing my last year.
I remember going to work dead tired everyday. All my coworker would be like... 'you look tired man.' I would be like... 'yea, late night....' every day of the week

. My manager never noticed though since I always got all my work done.
Regardless, yea the game is an absolute massive investment of time. I do have intentions of going back to it when the expansion comes out for some casual play for a month in December (after finals), and then back to school for my last semester.
And I've been an officer and/or co-officer as well of guilds too. Luckily, I only put some input and stuff, but never really 'involved' with that stuff per se.