Graduate Students do not face Grues

...but they do face dissertations.  Orgtheory provides a link to Violet - an award winning text based adventure of a graduate student attempting to finish 1,000 words on his dissertation.

Make sure you write!

Bonus: MC Frontalot on the dangers of Grues and text based adventures.

Edit: The game was quite the procrastination tool and had a nice payoff - and  I may have to go back for some of the easter eggs.