Me
I'm Volkan Gurel, from Ankara, Turkey.
I'm 23 years old. I just graduated from MIT last summer with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Management. I'm currently living in New York and working at a very intriguing start-up called Hunch.
Interests
I just ran my first ever marathon. It was in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 13th at 5am, and I completed it in 4:45.
Running marathons is a great excuse to travel. The next marathon I'm running will be in Miami on January 31st at 6:10am.
Other than training for marathons, I enjoy the little things life, such as eating, going out, playing volleyball and swimming.
Favorite Quotes
Believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unchartered seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves!
Nietzsche
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Goethe
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!
Friend of Dean Karnazes