Do it! If you enjoy getting fully immersed in a game then it's actually fantastic. Don't expect constant action but you start to really live your character, know what I mean? I joined an alliance only like my second month in and ended up being their lead scout for scanning out wormholes and points of interest every day for other players in my corp who would then pay me for the co-ords and go and run them. Earned enough to buy a battlecruiser before I had to stop playing for exams.