I am an international transfer student and college housing is a bit confusing to me. I got an email that said “Your suite is a private, two-room double with an ensuite bathroom”. Does it mean that I will have my own room and just share a bathroom with one other person?
Pretty much yes. You and your roommate could choose to use one room as a shared bedroom and have the other as a common room, but most people would not arrange things that way. The “ensuite” bathroom means it’s just for you and your roommate.
The downside to having a bathroom “ensuite” is that student’s are responsible for cleaning their own bathroom, as the cleaning staff does not have keys to student rooms.
Thank you for explanation. As a side note, is there any way I can see the floor plan of my assigned house?
Probably. Use the web. There won’t be one site that has all the current floor plans for all of the Harvard dorms. But each of the Harvard houses has its own website, and most (maybe all) of those will have some kind of a link to floor plans for the rooms available to students in that house. So go to the website for the house to which you have been assigned. (All upperclass Harvard students are assigned to one of 12 different “houses,” and you have almost certainly been assigned to one, too. Some of the houses have multiple buildings with different names. Here’s a website that will link you to the websites of each of the different houses: http://osl.fas.harvard.edu/houses .)
Lowell seems to be the only house that doesn’t show a floor plan on their website. Oh well.