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.
Example: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Example solution: 201
Example explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.

Problem: [253, 29, 14, 89, 230, 208, 108, 150, 258, 211, 214, 21, 284, 106, 278, 241, 40, 186, 123, 44], k=17

Solution: 253