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:
[79, 95, 30, 89, 165, 39, 265, 115, 202, 19, 170, 76, 164, 46, 92, 235, 213, 246, 234, 219], k=19

Ex Output:
246

Ex Input:
[234, 140, 29, 61, 116, 256, 183, 137, 255, 265, 245, 122, 200, 63, 50, 155, 28, 154, 39, 271], k=17

Ex Output:
255

Ex Input:
[144, 283, 257, 94, 54, 261, 75, 182, 199, 111, 106, 103, 251, 252, 222, 109, 203, 280, 45, 81], k=2

Ex Output:
54