Unimpressive GPA

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I have just completed my third year at a community college. I have about 70 credit hours, and my GPA currently stands at a 3.28. I'm not satisfied with that. I was hoping to get accepted into an honors program once I start university, but one of their requirements is a minimum GPA of 3.35 (it's not actually required, but they do take it into account). I need only two classes at most before I can transfer to university, and I doubt that two more classes can boost my GPA that much, especially since they're both math classes.

Do you think a 3.28 GPA is really that bad? Am I just being too hard on myself?

Forgive me if I've misunderstood, the GPA system is quite foreign to me (I'm a Brit), but that's roughly equivalent to a middle to high B, right? As far as I am concerned, a B is good. An A is of course very good. A C is satisfactory and a D is poor.

Congratulations, you're better than satisfactory. Which is good.

A 3.3 isn't bad (round it up on your resume), it's far better than your typical student to be honest. And the honors program is kind of a joke in my opinion, I have friends who have done it and it adds absolutely no educational value to their curriculum, and no one really cares about it in the end. Really the major grade cut-offs are 3.0, 3.5, 3.75, and of course 4.0. As long as you have over a 3.0 you can qualify for most jobs out there. There's a few that require over a 3.5, but not that many. Plus, you'll find that once you start working, employers hardly even care about your GPA. I have a very high GPA myself, but they hardly even look at it, they just care about my work experience more than anything.

Mine is gonna probably be about that when I graduate in a week. I'm convinced it was one of the deciding factors, if not the only deciding factor, in keeping me out of graduate school.