Teacher: 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.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
[163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Solution: 201
Reason: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.

Now, solve this instance: [273, 12, 97, 267, 96, 60, 289, 95, 248, 120, 255, 275, 257, 122, 78, 191, 179, 167, 116, 79], k=16
Student:
257