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: [182, 287, 153, 29, 292, 220, 52, 104, 299, 236, 113, 10, 117, 125, 95, 44, 180, 42, 173, 215], k=2
A: 
29