Cranky Old Fangirls

As part of my effort to clear stuff out of the house, I came across my old yearbooks. (BTW, if anyone has any recommendations of places that will buy or take yearbooks, please let me know. I just want them anywhere not here without having to pay for postage). As I hadn't looked at them in quite some time, I browsed through them to see what condition they were in and ended up reading a bunch of messages across different years. I noticed a lot of people referenced the fact that I was writing stories in class.

These were mostly fanfic although I did draft an original novel at the time too as well as various short stories. (These efforts were almost uniformly terrible). The point being that while people did in fact know I was fannish about different things (which was mentioned by a few) they didn't know about fanworks or about it being part of the fan experience. If they remembered anything about me, it would be that I was going to write for a living (even though I never said any such thing to anyone).

I'm curious what experience other people had and whether they'd likely be remembered as a fan by classmates and why?