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.
Q: [88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8
A: 
88