Caulking

To seal a gap with a substance;

To make a boat water-tight.

Sometimes I feel as if uni doesn't exactly caulk me, merely highlights places where caulking is needed. Then the caulk is applied, only that application highlights smaller holes. Then, everything explodes and the boat falls apart and the only things left are the substances used to caulk in the first place; and the occasional spattered fragment of what used to be a brain.