While munching on a slice of pizza, Michael Cruz (freshmen-computer engineering) said, "I'd do it if I were old enough."

Cruz was referring to being a castmember on the CBS show Survivor. He was one of more than 60 students who watched the last episode of the popular show Wednesday night in the study lounge of Waring Commons.

The students sat on the edge of their seats during the two-hour show eagerly waiting to find out who would be the winner.

In case you've been living under a rock, Survivor, which has been airing every Wednesday night throughout the summer, started off with 16 strangers being placed on a deserted island in the middle of the South China Sea. Each week the castaways had to vote one person off the island. The last person left got a cash prize of $1 million dollars.

By the last episode, only four of the castaways remained: Kelly, a river guide from Nevada; Rudy, a retired Navy Seal from Virginia; Rich, a corporate trainer from Rhode Island and Sue, a truck driver from Wisconsin.

Students had different ideas for whom they thought the winner would be. Monique Stanley (junior-accounting) said that she thought Rudy was the "bomb," and she predicted that he would win.

"I think he's going to win cause Jay Leno said Rudy was going to win and I believe him," Stanley said.

Now, back to the episode. In the first challenge, the four surviving castaways took part in a trivia contest, in which the winner would get immunity from the first of three tribal councils. After getting through tough questions such as, "Name the two survivors from Pagong who did not compete in the obstacle course," Kelly emerged as the winner. (By the way, the answer was Colleen and Gervase.)

Cheers erupted from the West Halls' crowd when Sue was voted off during the first tribal council.

Kelly gained immunity again after the second challenge and Rudy was voted off the island at the second tribal council.

So, the show was now down to two castaways. Jonathan Wood (sophomore-theatre) said he wanted Kelly to emerge victorious.

"I think she wants it the most and she stayed true to herself," Wood said.

Although the Kelly fans outnumbered those supporting Rich, a few people watching were cheering for him.

Although he had never seen the show before, Alexander Martini (senior-international politics) said he wanted Rich to win because he had heard a lot of good things about him. Martini got his wish, because Rich edged Kelly by a 4-3 vote in the third and final tribal council, which got a little brutal, thanks to Sue's hissy fit at Kelly.

Jessica Bower (freshmen-science) thought Sue's comments to Kelly were entertaining because they were so controversial. She wasn't too amused about Rich being picked as the winner, though.

"I didn't want him to win. I didn't like him from the very start of the show because he was annoying and obnoxious."

Students seemed to enjoy themselves throughout the evening. While eating pizza and sipping on root-beer floats, they booed and cheered for their favorite castaways.

Paul Reigrod, a Watts Hall resident assistant, had the idea to have the party with Conal Carr, assistant director of Residence Life. "Everyone knows about it (Survivor) so it was great to get people together to watch the show."

Students participated in a raffle in the beginning of the episode and had to rank who they thought would be voted off in which order and guess the final winner. The person with the most correct order won a grab bag filled with a T-shirt, water bottle, keychain, Frisbee and pencils.

The lucky winner was Eli Tslaf (junior-international politics). Tslaf, who never saw an entire episode of Survivor before, was happy winning the contest. He did though, have one complaint about the show itself.

"I was hoping to see some people eating rats, but there wasn't, and I was disappointed," Tslaf said.