“This was the most difficult thing I have done in my entire life” Wallington said. “At the time it was miserable, but now I think it was the greatest thing I have ever done.”

The show, which stared airing July 30 and had its season finale last night, features 12 teams, thrust into a wilderness compound, that must survive on rations and live in primitive conditions to complete for the ultimate prize of $250,000.

Each team rotates to be the “hunt team” and has to capture two other teams. The two teams captured are then in elimination and one team is voted to go home.

“This show is ‘The Amazing Race’ meets ‘Survivor,’” Wallington said. “It is something completely brand new that has a lot of suspense and is fun to watch.”

After Wallington’s brother, James, heard about the show through friends in LA, where he lives, they decided to audition and were chosen as one of the teams.

“My brother has always wanted to be on a reality show,” Wallington said.

Wallington flew out to LA to film the show in the beginning of May, and the pair stayed in the competition for 15 days.

It was a bit hectic for Wallington to schedule final exams early when she was flying out to California.

“It was a difficult couple of weeks before I left, but there was a lot of motivation,” Wallington said, adding that she took her exams a week early.

Wallington and her brother got eliminated on episode 5, but attribute their success to their strategizing.

“My brother and I were more strategic than physical,” Wallington said. “Instead of running for miles and tiring ourselves out even more, we did more walking and hiding.”

Wallington also said that even though the show filmed the exciting parts of the competition, it was hard to get the perspectives on each teams’ experience because the teams were only shown for about four minutes each episode.

Being on the show was an experience that brought her and her brother closer ever since he moved to LA four years ago, she said.

“We have been more close than we have been in the last couple years,” Wallington said. “I think for us, being siblings was an advantage over the other teams because we could fight with each other and get over it right after.”

After seeing tweets from producers about casting for the next season, Wallington said she would like to do it again.

“I would love to do another competition like this,” Wallington said. “I am hoping there would be a reunion season for the first season, which would be pretty cool.”