John Panagopoulos:  

Life I was accepted to Tufts in 1981. For five semesters I made the dean’s list. I graduated from Tufts in May, 1985 cum laude with a B.A. in English. Later on, I received an MA in English from Northeastern in 1987 and an MBA from UMASS/Boston in 1991. Soon after entering Tufts M. Ed. Program in 1986, I began a 13-week student-teacher internship at Lexington High School, 251 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA 02173. I successfully completed the internship, but decided to leave the program because I found the freshman disciple problems intractable. I may be more suited for college instruction or tutoring; I actually tutored students in calculus and biology while attending Tufts. After a week (January 12-16, 1987 of exhaustive testing and training, I began work as a seasonal data transcriber at the Andover Service Center IRS. In May 1987 I transferred to the Tax Examining Detail within the same organization. Afterwards I relocated to the IRS Automated Collections Systems (ACS) department as an Account Analyst/Tax Examining Clerk at the JFK Building in Boston. Heartily sick of the IRS, I then entered UMass/Boston’s Co-op Program within the HR/Employee Relations Department of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group until April ...Expand for more