PRIVATE PLT ON XCOUNTRY TRAINING NIGHT OP GOES IN IMC IN VFR FLT; GETS FLT ASSIST.

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I AM A STUDENT PLT; I DO HAVE MY PRIVATE LICENSE AND AM IN THE INST PROGRAM. I WAS ON MY LONG XCOUNTRY FOR MY COMMERCIAL LICENSE FROM ILG-GSO-N92-ILG. ON THE WAY BACK FROM GSO TO ILG AT RICHMOND; VA; THE WX TURNED BAD; IT WAS PM00 LCL. I WAS BEING VECTORED AROUND THE ATA IN DIRECTION OF PATUXENT; MD. PATUXENT WAS VFR AT THAT TIME. THE CEILING CAME DOWN. I WENT DOWN TO 900 FT SO I COULD FLY BELOW THE CLOUDS. RICHMOND HANDED ME OVER TO PATUXENT AND I GOT FLT FOLLOWING FOR ME. THEY HANDED ME OVER TO DOVER APCH WHEN I WAS OVER THE DELMARVA PENINSULA. AROUND ESIU THE CEILING WAS AROUND 1000 FT; BECAUSE I FLEW AT 900 AND SOMETIMES I FLEW IN CLOUD FOG (STILL ABLE TO SEE THE GND). THEN DOVER TOLD ME THEY COULDN'T GIVE ME RADAR VECTORS TO ILG UNLESS I FLEW AT 1700 FT OR HIGHER (MSL). SO I DID THIS. THIS IS WHEN I BECAME IMC. AT 1900 FT; I FLEW IN BTWN 2 CLOUD LAYERS BECAUSE I COULD SEE MY STROBE LIGHTS REFLECTING ON THE LAYERS. THEY GAVE ME RADAR VECTORS TO W92 AND TOLD ME TO LAND AT MY OWN DISCRETION. I DID THIS; AND WENT AGAIN THROUGH THE CLOUDS AND AT 1500-1300 FT I COULD SEE THE GND AGAIN; AND THE ARPT. I MADE A TOUCH-AND-GO AND PROCEEDED VFR TO ILG. THERE I HAD TO CALL PHILADELPHIA APCH. (DOVER GAVE ME THE NUMBER IN THE AIR). I RPTED TO THEM THE EVENT AND THEY WOULD NOTIFY THE FAA AND I WOULD PROBABLY HEAR FROM THE FAA AGAIN. I REALIZE THAT WHEN THE WX TURNED BAD AT RICHMOND; I SHOULD HAVE WENT BACK; OR LANDED AT PATUXENT. A LACK OF JUDGEMENT AND WRONG JUDGEMENT MADE ME CONTINUE IN A DANGEROUS SITUATION. I REALIZE I WAS WRONG IN THIS ONE; AND HOPE OTHERS CAN LEARN FROM MY SITUATION EVENT.