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: [161, 185, 46, 210, 138, 225, 245, 139, 187, 107, 124, 128, 249, 253, 135, 95, 234, 278, 261, 38], k=8

Solution: 138