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]: [272, 96, 64, 119, 236, 228, 129, 252, 297, 201, 144, 29, 20, 200, 162, 79, 285, 254, 189, 196], k=16
[EX A]: 252

[EX Q]: [207, 198, 256, 176, 228, 201, 72, 241, 284, 203, 28, 230, 223, 80, 249, 266, 111, 98, 104, 170], k=8
[EX A]:
176