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 Input:
[70, 294, 268, 166, 52, 108, 277, 232, 141, 230, 146, 149, 195, 107, 104, 263, 40, 244, 116, 275], k=11

Ex Output:
166

Ex Input:
[70, 184, 82, 86, 192, 24, 208, 79, 295, 154, 94, 221, 161, 174, 21, 173, 72, 299, 250, 32], k=4

Ex Output:
70

Ex Input:
[147, 31, 154, 196, 96, 14, 288, 116, 217, 17, 141, 143, 68, 94, 212, 184, 223, 42, 214, 63], k=8

Ex Output:
96