In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[EX Q]: [101, 265, 235, 38, 208, 147, 204, 135, 97, 88, 129, 20, 181, 285, 74, 130, 203, 33, 228, 65], k=16
[EX A]: 208

[EX Q]: [180, 257, 70, 83, 264, 61, 245, 125, 50, 285, 121, 163, 79, 290, 54, 293, 170, 174, 64, 244], k=20
[EX A]: 293

[EX Q]: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1
[EX A]:
18