MIDI

In my quest to dicover which graduate schools I will be throwing myself at this year, I've been looking and listening to the faculty at these places. One I came across had midi files to listen to on their website, and I just don't know why they bothered. Even I know midi is not particularly helpful, and really, I have to make sense and imagine enough with midi for my own works, I don't need to do it for yours too, especially when there are several other selections which are real audio recordings (oy, it just got worse, please DON'T put in midiazations in the middle of real recordings, it's dreadful. Just put the movements you have real recordings of and let it be). Though, I must say, kudos for at least having a freaking website, and with music written since I was born, I do appreciate that.

midi: must I decipher it?