Your new and official CUNY email address is: firstname.lastname@student.mec.cuny.edu
Your new password is: your date of birth, in this format: 19YYMMDD
After logging in for the first time, you must change your password.

Click on Live@MEC to access your email.
Live@MEC Login: Please see above for Login information Live@MEC
Old Student Email Account: Remember this account can no longer be used for sending email. Please forward all emails from this account to your live@MEC account as soon as possible.

As you know, important correspondence, such as policy announcements, emergency notices and alerts, event announcements, grades, course materials are sent to students through email.

Effective shortly, all correspondence from the College including your instructors will only be sent to your Official CUNY Email Address. This is the only email that will be recognized by the University and the College.

Because Live@MEC is supported by Microsoft you will share in the many benefits provided by Windows Live
Hotmail and reap the rewards of improved Connection, Collaboration and Communication!

  • 5GB of storage for each account.
  • New features: calendar sharing, contact management, access to email from mobile phones.
  • Improved spam-filtering
  • Password-protected online storage for 1,000+ documents.
  • Continued access even as an alumni.

*** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ***

We strongly recommend that you login to your e-mail account at least once every 6 months, to ensure that your messages and attachments are kept intact. In the event that you do not login to your email account for an extended period of time, it will be disabled.

While a campus Live account will never be actually deleted from the system, the contents of your inbox will be cleared. To reactivate your account, simply follow the instructions that appear on the login screen. If you experience any problems while attempting to reactivate your account, please contact your local campus Helpdesk.

For help reactivating your account please see the  reactivating your Live@Mec Account documentation.

If you encounter any problems logging in, please contact
   MEC's Student Helpdesk: 718-270-5132 or e-mail helpdesk@mec.cuny.edu

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