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:
[178, 142, 146, 64, 29, 225, 162, 274, 62, 51, 177, 263, 80, 173, 179, 282, 58, 164, 172, 271], k=15

Ex Output:
179

Ex Input:
[294, 134, 282, 166, 242, 167, 14, 184, 231, 187, 227, 11, 27, 50, 142, 79, 280, 76, 70, 218], k=7

Ex Output:
79

Ex Input:
[117, 89, 182, 76, 216, 86, 31, 283, 142, 237, 178, 35, 200, 232, 23, 296, 211, 273, 192, 10], k=12

Ex Output:
192