Brown said that he had grown personally during his often grueling, month-long experience in the Australia.

"This game's taught me a lot about myself...I feel invincible at times, and Survivor has been a big reality check for me. It's taught me what I can and can't take," he said in his last moments on the show.

HLS student Kristina S. Bennard said she sympathized with Brown's plight, but is disappointed that he will no longer be on the show.

"He looked kind of hungry and sick and tired, so I thought it was good for him to get a decent meal and shower and call his family," she said.

While on "Survivor II," Brown caused a small sensation at a school not used to immersion in popular culture. The Harvard Law Record, HLS's newspaper, wrote an articles updating Brown's progress each week.

HLS spokesperson Michael A. Armini said that when it was announced that Brown would be on the show, reporters called HLS from all over the world wanting to talk to Brown, his professors, or his friends.

"The publicity is all part of the package," Brown wrote in an e-mail. "I didn't apply to be on 'Survivor' to be famous, but you don't apply for the number one show in America without expecting to get noticed everywhere."

--Staff writer William M. Rasmussen can be reached at wrasmuss@fas.harvard.edu.