Hoose Library of Philosophy — Local services in Los Angeles

Highly overrated study spot on campus. Study spaces are small, the chairs are uncomfortable, the desks are wobbly, and there aren't nearly enough outlets. It's also way too hot half the time as well. The staff are extremely nitpicky on really stupid rules and they'll come over and bother you about them all the time. You aren't allowed to leave your spot even to go to the bathroom. Beautiful space though, but everyone knows that. It seems like a place that USC built so they can show it off in tours for its nice aesthetic but it functions very poorly as an actual...

It's a nice library but the staff constantly badger students over the littlest things. If you leave to drink water you'll get a "friendly" reminder not to do that. If you have a water bottle on the table, that'll warrant another friendly reminder to remove it....

Great place to study and write. Half of my doctoral thesis was written in this place. In this space, I used to think that I was conversing with the great philosophical minds that were immortalized in the many...